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Official currency-market intervention by monetary and fiscal authorities, including coordinated multi-country operations.
The Ministry of Finance's monthly release shows where the yen defence gets its money, and because the paper being sold was bought when the yen was far stronger, the selling throws off yen gains the cabinet is already spending.
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The reported figures imply Tokyo was buying yen at about 159.5 to the dollar, which now trades at 160.20, and the rate gap that produced the slide sits exactly where it did. That is what a record defence buys when you cannot set the other side's policy.
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Scott Bessent says recent yen moves are "pretty well contained." Dollar-yen sits at 160.15, a month after Washington's first yen intervention in almost 30 years. The defence has cost roughly $11bn a yen.
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A yen intervention and doubled buybacks each bought a day or two at the long end, Wolf Richter reports. The supply arithmetic behind that says duration, not the Fed, sets the floor.
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The won closed at 1,397.7 on the 19th, down 14.1 in a session, even as the U.S. 30-year yield hit its highest since 2007. Exporter flow, not rate differentials, set the price.
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The first joint US-Japan yen intervention in three decades moved the rate about seven yen and handed much of it back, leaving the carry trade as the live risk.
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Leveraged funds cut net yen shorts from nearly 138,000 contracts to about 59,500 in roughly five weeks. The carry trade's risk premium has been re-priced by policy, not by rates.
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