The yen surge is about much more than intervention
The yen’s rally looks driven more by a hawkish repricing of the BOJ than fresh intervention, though intervention risk remains firmly in play.
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The yen’s rally looks driven more by a hawkish repricing of the BOJ than fresh intervention, though intervention risk remains firmly in play.
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