JPY: Finance Minister Aso continues to talk up intervention threat – MUFG

By FXStreet Lee Hardman, Currency Analyst at MUFG, notes that the yen has continued to weaken in the Asian trading session leaving USD/JPY on course to increase for the sixth trading day out of the last seven as initial sharp yen gains following the BoJ’s disappointing decision to leave policy unchanged are unwinding.

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“The main trigger for yen weakness overnight was again fresh comments from Japanese officials which have raised the perceived risk of direct intervention in the near-term. Finance Minister Aso spoke in front of parliament today and stated that “Japan will obviously intervene if one-sided moves persist”. He also described yen strength before and during the Golden Week holiday as having been “quite rapid” and that they are “determined to prevent such one-sided moves from accelerating”. However, he was careful not to draw international criticism stating that Japan has not and has no plans to manipulate yen moves on a long-term basis to boost export competiveness. Japan will be pleased that the stronger verbal intervention from early this week is at least initially helping to dampen yen strength.

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