Big Japanese bond buying would bring down interest rates here - and help American stocks.

Question is have the eurozone leaders done enough for the ECB to step up bond buying?

Kuroda assumed the BOJ position in late March 2013, immediately discussing bond buying and a two-year target of 2% inflation as goals.

If foreign bond buyers, especially the Japanese, are lackluster in their bond buying, interest rates could go higher.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says markets will be disappointed if they think Mario Draghi is about to unleash a wave of bond buying.

Investors were hoping for more colour on bond buying as liquidity in the financial system is tight.

But a surge of bond buying when Chicago trading resumed probably helped to lift stock prices, which had been drifting upward during the bond halt.

They will be extremely disappointed if there isn't a big acceleration in bond buying.

This is far less than the €10bn+ of bond buying seen during August and early September.

The ECB's bond buying caused interest rates to fall sharply back to affordable levels, bringing much needed breathing space.