Japanese currency rises as US Fed prepares to cut rates this week
Bank of Japan’s moves to shore up yen indicate consensus on such actions needs to be updated
Parliament told there will be no change to central bank’s basic stance on monetary easing
Barf bags ready
Regional indices follow Wall Street higher with Japan’s benchmark Topix rising 3%
The yen carry trade is a symptom not a cause of investor anxiety
Resurgent Japanese currency forces speculators to shut down years’ worth of bets that could run into billions of dollars
Tokyo equities jump 9% following Monday’s global rout but US and European recoveries were more muted
Earnings uplift from weak currency might not last much longer
Bank of Japan’s interest rate increase catches Tokyo market by surprise
Tacit acknowledgment of this by the country’s central bank signals a shift to more honest thinking
Japanese central bank plans to halve monthly bond purchases as it tightens monetary policy
Traders braced for further volatility in currency ahead of knife-edge Bank of Japan meeting
The link between the Japanese currency and Silicon Valley stocks seems more than a coincidence
Bigly moves
The vulnerability of the yen still overhangs the Tokyo market despite a recent bounce in the currency
Traders on alert for further currency intervention as market impact of April’s $62bn effort proves shortlived
Currency’s slide towards 34-year lows resumes as finance ministry reveals scale of market intervention
Unilateral efforts to prop up Japan’s currency are expensive and potentially futile
US currency likely to stay stronger for longer with little obvious on the horizon to dent its strength
Government interventions this week fail to ease concerns about plunging currency
The battering sustained by the yen since January is causing alarm in some quarters
Central bank data all but confirms Monday’s market intervention, as currency resumes slide against US dollar
Currency slid past ¥160 a dollar before regaining strength in a matter of hours
Governor Kazuo Ueda says weakening currency is having ‘no major impact’ on underlying inflation
