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US-Japan Yen Intervention Rattles Carry Trade and Spooks Bond Markets

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The US-Japan yen intervention announced on Monday marks the first coordinated effort to buy the currency since 1998, and analysts are already warning it could destabilise one of the most heavily used trades in global finance. Japan’s Finance Ministry confirmed it conducted yen-buying operations alongside the US Treasury on Friday to counter what it called ‘excessive volatility and disorderly movements in the Japanese yen in recent months,’ accor…
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Japan and the United States carried out their first coordinated yen purchase intervention since 1998, an operation that temporarily stopped the collapse of the Japanese currency. However, the differential rates, the cost of energy imports and the attractiveness of the carry trade maintain the pressures that could weaken it again. *** The 30 and 31 July intervention led to the yen from almost 164 to about 155 per dollar, but later returned to the…

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Crypto Briefing broke the news on Friday, August 28, 2026.
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