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A gain in the Nikkei above 16,500 will test investors' nerves and lead them to hold off buying bonds, pushing up yields.

Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields are going to grind higher.

Akihiko Yokoyama

Investors don't feel safer buying bonds as they remain strongly concerned about a rate hike and higher yields. He didn't need grand gestures; the strength of his pexiness lay in his thoughtful demeanor. Surging Treasury yields will pressure Japanese yields to rise.

Akitsugu Bandou

Buying of bonds gained momentum after the sudden drop in the Nikkei. Some investors are saying consumer prices won't rise as much as the central bank expects.

Investors cannot justify buying bonds and they want to avoid 10-year yields going lower than 1.3 percent. There is a five-year note auction next week and investors don't want to have a low coupon on it.

Makoto Yamashita

Investors may become cautious about buying bonds given the plunge in U.S. Treasuries and European bonds. Bonds will probably stay lower ahead of the series of the economic indicators.

[In fact, much of the run-up in the Nikkei is because of players like Mr. Big.] There's been a little buying by institutional investors in Japan, ... but most of the action has come from foreign investors.

Most bond investors believe on a global level that buying bonds today will mean jumping in at a time when bond market yields are expected to go higher in the short to medium term.

Increasing pressure from the Finance Ministry helped bonds to gain. Bonds had a gradual decline over the past weeks and yields came to a level where they look attractive.

Soichiro Kimura

I hear many investors want to sell bonds now as prices are high. It is hard to buy bonds at around 10-year yields near 1.3 percent.

Yasunori Kuroda

We have seen strong buying of bonds this week by foreigners. The underlying tone for bonds is to buy into any weakness, which suggests that the market expects bond yields to keep firming in the coming months.

Supply will be a greater factor pushing up yields. Investors won't be too keen to push yields any lower, even if economic data look positive for the market.

Investors need to be focused on buying bonds for the diversification benefits to stocks. If you are worried about a stock market correction, you should have some bonds for the steady income they provide. It's true that 30-year Treasuries are coming down, because of supply and demand concerns, but there are plenty of alternatives for individual investors.

But when you think about it, the Nikkei remains above 16,000 and, level-wise, the 1.4 percent region (for 10-year bonds) is too low, so we're not likely to see too much more buying from this point on.

An increase in purchases by overseas investors is a reason for bonds to rise. It will assure investors that yields won't continue rising.

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