Sentences with phrase «against the yen in»

The dollar hit a 10 - day high against the yen in overnight trading, but reversed that move, touching its session low after Dudley's remarks.

The yen's recovery was likely to be short - lived, and the dollar would rise against the yen in the coming months, analysts said.

As the global economy deteriorated in 2008, the collapse in virtually all asset prices led to the unwinding of the yen carry trade, leading to it surging as much as 29 percent against the yen in 2008, and 19 percent versus the US dollar by February 2009.

The obvious example is the slump in the US dollar against the yen in 1998 as the hedge funds lost their credit lines from Japanese banks and were compelled to unwind their carry trades.

Not exact matches

It is the promise of «Abenomics» that has seen the yen shed about 15 percent of its value against the dollar since November and Japanese shares surge to their highest level in more than four years.

For foreigners investing in Japanese stocks, the yen also poses a challenge, analysts said, with the rapid depreciation in the currency — which has fallen 14 percent against the U.S. dollar in the past three months - mitigating gains in the market.

LONDON, Feb 14 (Reuters)- The dollar hit a 15 - month low against the yen but steadied against the euro on Wednesday, with investors nervous ahead of key U.S. inflation numbers due later amid a fragile recovery in equity markets.

The yen dove by more than 15 % against the U.S. dollar in three months.

The yen has already gone down more than 16 percent against the dollar since the beginning of the year, and it is now down 12 percent in trade - weighted terms compared with the year before.

He also said that the Bank of Japan doesn't realize that the odds are stacked against them because whenever there's a problem in emerging markets, the yen is seen as a safe haven, which causes it to strengthen.

The yen has fallen about 11 % against the U.S. dollar this year, and that's been great for exports, while inflation is the highest it's been in five years.

The yen traded near 108 against the greenback Monday morning, the Japanese currency's weakest level versus the dollar in more than two months.

«There is a bit of a risk - off undertone to markets here,» said Shaun Osborne, currency strategist at Scotia Bank in Toronto, referring to the yen's performance against the greenback.

LONDON, Feb 14 - The dollar hit a 15 - month low against the yen but steadied against the euro on Wednesday, with investors nervous ahead of key U.S. inflation numbers due later amid a fragile recovery in equity markets.

The yen soared 1 percent against the dollar and euro on Tuesday after the Bank of Japan said its open - ended commitment to buy assets would kick in only next year, disappointing those who had expected more aggressive monetary easing.

In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.

In the past six months, the euro has gained about 8 percent against the dollar, 10 percent versus the British pound and soared 28 percent against the yen.

In the dying months of 2013 the yen fell 8 % against the U.S. dollar while the MSCI Japan index climbed 8 %.

«Trading into the Fed, the dollar could have a bounce, but if the tariffs come in after that could take the dollar down against the yen,» Nordvig said.

The last time the G - 20 issued such a firm statement against currency wars Japan was in the spotlight as its campaign of monetary stimulus pushed the yen to its lowest level against the dollar in about five years.

Specifically, the robust productivity growth achieved by the United States in the 1990s explains three - quarters of the strengthening of the dollar against the yen and two - thirds of the dollar's appreciation against the euro in that decade.

The Japanese yen is the overall winner against the greenback, underpinned by another bad day in Wall Street.

Elsewhere in forex markets, it's a relatively calm day, with a slight correction in the risk - off trade that we have been monitoring for weeks, as the yen is a tad lower today against all of its major peers, while the Dollar couldn't gain on risk - on currencies, despite the equity weakness.

It was unable to rally against some early weakness in the dollar (DX to 91.49) during Asian hours from some early strength in the yen (109.40 — 109.13, BOJ kept policy steady, removed time frame on reaching 2 % inflation target).

The US dollar in 2000 has risen against the currencies of all other industrial countries, although its rise against the yen has been relatively small.

Ultimately, we see the dollar weakening against the euro as real rates in the Euro Zone become more positive and strengthen versus the yen because inflation in Japan is picking up due to accelerating wage growth.

The yen hit historic lows against the U.S. dollar in 2016, and though it had strengthened by December, it still was very low, spurring an increase in international travel demand.

The Yen is still on the move, after yesterday's short squeeze in the USD / JPY, as the safe - haven currency regained some of the recently lost ground against its peers.

As US consumer prices declined unexpectedly on a month - to - month basis, Treasury yields retreated, while the Dollar remained under pressure against the Euro (although a break above 1.24 didn't happen in the EUR / USD), while the safe - haven Yen regained some of its recent losses against the Greenback.

Conversely, in a bull correction the U.S. dollar typically strengthens against emerging market currencies and the yen doesn't budge.

The rebound in the yen, which has caused a de facto tightening in Japanese monetary conditions, creates a further headache for the Bank of Japan, as it continues its extensive quantitative easing program, against an economic background in which inflation indicators have remained sluggish.

As of today, the unemployment level maintains to the lowest levels since 2009, but any increase in unemployment may weaken the European currency against major pairs, including Yen.

The Japanese yen gained a slight 0.06 percent against the US dollar at midday in the Asian trading session on Wednesday.

The country's healthy trade surpluses and the Plaza Accord in 1985, which sought to weaken the U.S. dollar against the Yen and German Deutsche Mark, caused the Yen currency to appreciate against other currencies, which in turn made foreign capital investments relatively inexpensive for Japanese companies.

Elsewhere the Japanese Yen slipped 0.06 % to ¥ 109.11 against the Dollar at the time of writing, easing geo - political risk and better than expected PMI numbers out of China supporting market risk appetite through the session, leading to a pullback in demand for the safe havens.

During this period, the dollar reached a low of 102 against the yen, and 1.365 against the euro — the lowest level since the latter's introduction in 1999.

If the Dollar broke lower, its likely too that bonds and duration would rally; defensives (staples, utes, reits) and growth (tech / biotech / discret) squeeze against crowded value unwinding (fins, energy, indus); yen and euro would squeeze mightily; gold squeezes while copper pukes in a favorite commodities «pair» unwind; HY could reverse weaker vs IG (currently everybody long CCC vs BB on the high beta trade)... this would be the theoretical path to our next pain - trade or even VaR shock.

In particular, the Australian dollar fell to around US63 cents by late August as investors moved out of the currency into the rapidly appreciating yen; the bilateral rate against the yen fell from 82 to 70 yen over the same period.

In the December quarter, the US dollar declined by 8 per cent against the euro, 7 per cent against the yen and 5 per cent on a broad trade - weighted basis.

In the final three months of last year the US dollar declined by 8 per cent against the euro and 7 per cent against the yen, to be around its lowest level in the past decadIn the final three months of last year the US dollar declined by 8 per cent against the euro and 7 per cent against the yen, to be around its lowest level in the past decadin the past decade.

The yen has been volatile over the past three months, in net terms falling by 3 per cent against the US dollar.

Overall, the data reflect anemic growth in corporate capital investment, which may be constrained in coming months by the recent appreciation in the Japanese yen against the dollar and by sluggish consumer demand, analysts said.

In case you've been living under a rock for the last few years, Japan's PM, Shinzo Abe's «Abenomics» (which is just Japan's colloquial term for our own QE that Bernanke put in motion), has caused the Yen to devalue by over 50 % against the dollar since the beginning of 201In case you've been living under a rock for the last few years, Japan's PM, Shinzo Abe's «Abenomics» (which is just Japan's colloquial term for our own QE that Bernanke put in motion), has caused the Yen to devalue by over 50 % against the dollar since the beginning of 201in motion), has caused the Yen to devalue by over 50 % against the dollar since the beginning of 2013.

The greenback remained in the 83 - yen range, its strongest level against the yen since last April.

The USD is currently up 0.0006 against the euro, trading at 1.3339, after peaking at 1.3351 earlier in the day, however it has slid against a particularly strong yen.

In the last week, the upcoming Japanese election has caused the yen to fall against a basket of other currencies.

-- Even though the Fed is not expecting a massive deterioration in US inflation expectations, as the Fed lowered projections for rate hikes, the tendency is for dollar softness against the yen, which is poor for sentiment in Japan, particularly for equity sentiment.

The bulk of this has been due to the exchange rate against the Japanese yen, as the yen has fallen sharply on world markets, including a fall of about 50 per cent against the US dollar from its peaks in mid 1995.

Most important has been the weakening in the yen, which fell against the US dollar from 133 at end March to a low of 146, before intervention by the US authorities saw it recover sharply (Graph 1).

In early June, however, the Australian dollar's fall accelerated, causing it to decline even against the yen, which was itself falling sharply.