For example, the amount of issuance of super-long-term corporate bonds, such as 20-year corporate bonds, has been increasing. Positive effects of these highly accommodative financial conditions seem to have been spreading to the real economy gradually. As I mentioned before, business fixed investment plans are firm despite the heightened uncertainties surrounding overseas economies.
For deposit and loan of one-year maturity, the interest spread is 3.33 percent compared to 3.6 to 8.5 percent in other transitional countries, 3.82 to 45.11 percent in Latin America and 1.78 to 3.59 percent in industrial countries. Strictly speaking, the interest spreads can be compared and categorized in many different ways. But I don’t have time to go into details today.