Bank of Japan

Japanese stock markets have crashed 15% (the "most since Lehman") and USDJPY plunging (most since 1998) since Kuroda unleashed NIRP and are down 11% since QQE2 was unveiled to save the world from an absent Fed. So with NIRP and QE (and jawboning) now 'useless' for Japanese monetary policy, there is only one option left - Yentervention.

Suddenly it all stopped working..

As Central Banker faith falters...

Overnight saw some hints at this beginning to happen, as Bloomberg reports,

Just like two days ago, when for the first time since 2011 the BOJ intervened directly in the USDJPY market, moments ago Kuroda's trading desk once again decided to sell a boatload of Yen, with the key carry pair trading at 111.25 and threatening to take out the 110 support, in the process sending the USDJPY higher by 175 pips in a matter of seconds to just above 113.

The move quickly filtered through to all other asset classes:

With China offline for the rest of the week, global markets have found a new Asian bogeyman in the face of Japan which as reported last night saw its markets crash, and the Yen soar, showing that less than 2 weeks after the BOJ unveiled NIRP, yet another central bank has lost control.

Late last month, in what amounted to a tacit admission that nothing is working when it comes to pulling Japan out of its decades’ long stint in the deflationary doldrums, the BoJ adopted negative rates.

Ten days ago, when Deutsche Bank stock was about 10% higher, the biggest German commercial bank declared war on Mario Draghi, as we put it, warning him that any further easing by the ECB would only push stocks (with an emphasis on DB stock which has gotten pummeled over the past few months) lower. What it got, instead, was a slap in the face in the form of a major new easing program when the Bank of Japan announced it is unveiling negative rates just three days later.