The yen is expected to appreciate due to Japan's rising interest rates and the Fed's easing. Click here for a detailed ...

A weak yen worsens Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s already shaky position by making Japan’s imports — particularly energy — more costly. Tokyo may now have to sell dollars and buy yen to ...

You could, for example, switch your debt out of pounds and into yen with the pleasing result that your monthly interest payments on a debt of £300,000 would fall from £1,500 a month to £250 ...

In both cases, authorities buy or sell yen, usually against the dollar. The Ministry of Finance decides when to step in and the Bank of Japan acts as its agent. The decision is highly political ...

(Bloomberg) -- After their bullish yen trades were tested last week, hedge funds have wagered again that the Japanese currency will outperform its major peers in coming months. So-called macro ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation and strained households. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno ...