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  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    News in-depthBank of Japan
    Japan feels inflation heat from Fed’s ‘higher for longer’ shift

    Yen’s 34-year low against dollar complicates task for BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda a month after ending negative rates era

    BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Currencies
    Asia’s central bankers struggle to contain strong US dollar

    Shifting US interest rate expectations put pressure on Japan’s yen and China’s renminbi

    Call loan brokers at work on the trading floor of brokerage Tokyo Tanshi in Tokyo
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Currencies
    US, Japan and South Korea seek to limit dollar’s rise

    Tokyo and Seoul voice ‘serious concerns’ after currencies hit by shift in interest rate expectations

    Currency traders pass by a screen showing the Kospi and exchange rate between the US dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of KEB Hana Bank’s headquarters in Seoul on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Currencies
    Dollar hits 34-year high against yen after US inflation data

    Move past ¥153 sparks speculation that Japan could intervene to support currency

  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    A new day dawns for the yen

    Japan’s negative interest rate era ended last week. Its currency stability era could end shortly

  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Markets InsightRebecca Patterson
    Making sense of a wrong-way bet on the yen

    Among the largest developed-market peers, the Japanese currency has lost the most against the dollar this year

    A banknote of Japanese yen
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Japan steps up intervention warnings as yen slides to weakest level since 1990

    Finance minister says government will ‘not rule out any steps against any excessive moves’

    A woman counts Japanese 10,000 yen notes
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    End of negative interest rates in Japan raises threat of yen volatility

    International investors and foreign governments have used the currency as a reliable vehicle for low-cost borrowing

    The trading room inside the Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking head office in Tokyo, Japan
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessLeo Lewis
    Why an M&A swoop in Hawaii is a big bet on the yen

    Approach for Aloha state carrier seems timed to gain from a rally in the currency but there are factors working against that too

    A Hawaiian Airlines plane
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
    Asia-Pacific equities
    Japanese stocks rally as investors’ rate rise fears wane

    Higher borrowing costs regarded as less likely due to economic fallout from New Year’s Day earthquake

  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Bank of Japan
    Yen falls after Bank of Japan sticks with negative interest rates

    Governor Kazuo Ueda says central bank in no rush to change monetary policy as Fed weighs cutting rates

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Yen set for best month this year as dollar weakens

    BoJ expected to raise interest rates next year, while Fed signals rate cuts ahead

    The yen has climbed 7 per cent against the dollar since the middle of November
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    Yen leaps to 3-month high as traders bet on Bank of Japan rate increase

    Central bank governor Kazuo Ueda fuels speculation of end to negative rates with comments to parliament

    Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    ExplainerJapanese government bonds
    What the end of Japan’s yield curve control experiment means for markets

    Investor reaction to the BoJ removing the hard ceiling on 10-year yields has so far been muted

    Montage showing the Bank of Japan, 100 Japenese Yen coin, and a bar chart
  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
    Central bank intervention
    The BoJ is, or isn’t, playing a blinder

    Deutsche Bank sees danger for the yen

  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
    Yen under renewed pressure following BoJ policy tweak

    Currency sinks close to last intervention point after small adjustment to central bank policy

    Outside of Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    Bank of Japan
    Bank of Japan under pressure from weak yen and soaring yields

    Two-day policy meeting could end with changes to trading band for government bonds

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Japanese business & finance
    ‘50 Cent’ has a big new trade on – the Japanese yen

    RIP YCC = JPY FTW

  • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
    Unhedged podcast17 min listen
    Japan’s new direction

    Will Japan’s pledge to change corporate culture work?

  • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
    Unhedged podcast17 min listen
    Three markets we’re watching

    How will gold, oil and the yen respond to chaos in the Middle East?

  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Japanese government bonds
    Bank of Japan buys $12.7bn of bonds as yields hit highest in a decade

    Purchases come as global market sell-off drives US Treasury rates

    A man walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Japanese yen falls through key level of 150 to dollar

    Traders left confused as currency strengthens sharply after breaking through closely watched level

    Pedestrians cross a street in Tokyo
  • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
    Special ReportInvesting in Japan
    Yen tumbles and shares soar as Japan inflation begins to bite

    Export industries report all-time highs, while households face rising cost of imports

    A worker assembles a vehicle on the production line of a factory
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Bank of Japan
    Yen tumbles after Bank of Japan maintains ultra-low interest rates

    August data shows consumer price growth exceeded 2% target for 17th straight month

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    South Korean business & finance
    South Korea launches samurai bond in Japan as bilateral relations improve

    Bank of Japan’s dovish monetary policy has made yen-denominated debt issuance attractive

    From left, US president Joe Biden, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol
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