ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: Ueda comments send USD/JPY plunging

Ueda drove USD/JPY to its biggest daily loss here in 2 months: Other: Bank of Japan Governor Ueda gave an interview with Yomiuri last week. The media group published comments from the interview over the weekend. In a nutshell, Ueda said that he thinks its possible that the BOJ will have enough information by the

USD/JPY plunging after pop above 145 – verbal intervention fears

USD/JPY popped to a high above 145.20 earlier in the session but has since been slammed lower to circa 144.67. USD/JPY back around 145 has, of course, heightened the fear of Japanese authorities intervening to support they yen (and thus push USD/JPY lower). The most likely form of intervention at this stage would be verbal,