* Asian stock markets : https://tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4
* Nikkei rises on BOJ pledge to buy unlimited bonds
* Fed and ECB to meet later in week
* Raft of major U.S. corporate earnings due this week
* Oil prices fall anew as world runs short of storage space
By Wayne Cole
SYDNEY, April 27 (Reuters) - Asian shares bounced on Monday
as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced more stimulus steps to
help cushion the economic impact of the coronavirus, while oil
took another spill as the world ran short of space to store it.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan
.MIAPJ0000PUS rose 1.8%, taking back a chunk of last week's
2.6% decline. Japan's Nikkei .N225 gained 2.6%, and Chinese
blue chips .CSI300 1%.
After a soft start, E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 ESc1
climbed 1%, while EUROSTOXX 50 futures STXEc1 added 2.6% and
FTSE futures FFIc1 1.5%.
The BOJ matched market speculation by pledging to buy
unlimited amounts of government bonds, removing its previous
target of 80 trillion yen per year. It sharply raised purchases of corporate and commercial
debt, and eased rules for what debt would qualify.
The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank meet later
in the week, with the latter likely to do more bond buying.
"For the Fed, no further developments on QE or interest
rates are expected, but we expect it to underline that its
policies will be in place indefinitely to support the economy,"
ANZ wrote in a research note.
"We expect the ECB to raise the size of its emergency bond
buying package (PEPP) by around 500 billion euros to 1.250
trillion and to continue pressing for a sizeable fiscal
stimulus."
On the data front, the United States and European Union
release GDP for the first quarter and the influential U.S. ISM
survey on manufacturing.
Earnings season will be in full swing with around 173
companies in the S&P 500 reporting this week, including Apple,
Amazon
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