© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Taiwan dollar note is seen in this illustration photo May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/Illustration/File Photo TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan’s central bank will intervene in the foreign exchange market if there are “extreme” fluctuations to maintain financial stability, its governor Yang Chin-long said on Wednesday. With the island’s export-dependent economy facing headwinds
Market Recap The significant upside surprise in US job opening numbers for August (9.61 million vs 8.8 million expected) prompted another negative session in Wall Street overnight, with a resilient labour market deemed to be providing more room for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to keep rates high for longer. US Treasury yields continued with their
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Japanese yen and U.S. dollar banknotes are seen with a currency exchange rate graph in this illustration picture taken June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo By Chuck Mikolajczak, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Lucy Raitano NEW YORK/LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) -The yen strengthened sharply against the dollar on Tuesday, leading some market participants to
USD/JPY OUTLOOK: USD/JPY briefly breaks above 150.00, but then pulls back sharply on signs that the Japanese government has stepped in to support the yen in currency markets. Any FX intervention measures will not be enough to support the yen on a sustained basis. As long as the underlying fundamentals do not change, the USD/JPY
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Light is cast on a U.S. one-hundred dollar bill next to a Japanese 10,000 yen note in this picture illustration shot February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Shohei Miyano/Illustration/File Photo By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat a sustained depreciation in the yen, as investors eye prospects
USD/JPY News and Analysis BoJ Minutes Discuss Concerns Around Inevitable Policy Change In the early hours of this morning the BoJ minutes were released wherein a discussion about an exit from negative interest rates took place. One board member raised concerns from a risk management point of view with respect to the major policy change,
© Reuters. Examples of Japanese yen banknotes are displayed at a factory of the National Printing Bureau producing Bank of Japan notes at a media event about a new series of banknotes scheduled to be introduced in 2024, in Tokyo, Japan, November 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ki By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The yen’s slide to
USD/JPY OUTLOOK: USD/JPY halts its advance near 11-month highs after breaching channel resistance earlier in the week. Despite some market hesitation, the U.S. dollar maintains a bullish outlook. Absent FX intervention by the Japanese government, the pair may soon break above the 150.00 level and head higher. This article looks at key USD/JPY’s technical levels
© Reuters. Eisuke Sakakibara, also known as ‘Mr Yen’, has projected that Japan may intervene if the yen crosses the 150 mark against the dollar, with concerns escalating at a level of 155. Sakakibara, who is currently leading the Institute for Indian Economic Studies, expressed these views on Thursday. Sakakibara went on to suggest that