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It was around a six - year high against the yen of 109.06 and a three - year peak of 0.78 euros.

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.

Abe's radical new economic policies, referred to as «Abenomics,» and expectations of a bold monetary policy have weakened the yen 21 percent against the dollar since mid-November, while Japanese shares have surged almost 31 percent.

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 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.

Although Bernanke denies it, the Fed's money - printing naturally depressed the value of the greenback against other important currencies, such as the euro and yen.

«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 U.S. dollar reached a session high against the yen following the release of data.

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

TOKYO, May 2 (Reuters)- Japan's Nikkei share average slipped on Wednesday amid caution ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy decision and U.S. jobs data, although the dollar's rise against the yen and positive sentiment toward tech stocks helped curb some of the losses.

Against the yen, the dollar hit a two - month high of 109.38 yen.

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 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.

The appreciation of the Australian dollar against the yen boosted returns until 2008 but the sharp depreciation since then has wiped out the positive carry.

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.

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.

TOKYO, May 2 Japan's Nikkei share average slipped on Wednesday amid caution ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy decision and U.S. jobs data, although the dollar's rise against the yen and positive sentiment toward tech stocks helped curb some of the losses.

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.

Already some of his comments have been blamed for the currency falling, most recently to two month lows against the Japanese yen, after he claimed the strength of the US dollar against China's yuan was «killing us».

US Treasury yields are stable, holding on near their recent highs, but as sentiment improved the USD sold off against most of its peers with only gaining some ground against the safe - haven Yen.

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.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

The yen was firmer against the U.S. dollar, weighing on the value of exports.

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.

It has continued an advance against the US currency — begun at the end of 2016 — that has reversed much of the yen's sharp decline immediately after the US presidential election.

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.

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.

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.

A strengthening of the yen against the dollar after the poor factory data weighed heavily on Japan's exporters.

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 decade.

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 2013.

By the end of the session, it was trading 0.4 percent higher against Japan's currency at 106.65 yen.

The greenback slid against all of its major peers yesterday's, falling to an eight week low against the pound sterling and sliding to 97.08 against the Japanese yen, amongst others.

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

The US dollar looks to be on target for its best weekly performance against the Japanese yen since early June, despite yesterday's slip on the back of concerns for the stability of the US economy with the potential tapering of the Federal Reserve's $ 85 billion a month bond purchasing program once again coming to the forefront of investors minds.

The United States dollar hit a seven - month high against the yen on Monday of 81.59.

During the trading session, the euro also made advances against the Japanese currency and reached a four - week peak of 104.50 yen.

Ultimately, these divergences represent the cornerstone of our thesis; the US dollar should re-exert itself against both the euro and yen.

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).

However, the Australian dollar remains one of the few currencies in which market participants continue to have long speculative positions relative to the US dollar (Graph 24); in the case of the Japanese yen, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc, speculative positions against the US dollar are short.

While the Australian dollar has appreciated more than some of these other currencies, the additional appreciation is not that large (see Graph 24), and, as noted above, the Australian dollar remains below average levels against currencies such as the euro and yen.

Our exchange rate against the US dollar and the currencies of most of our trading partners has shown little net change over the past year, and the rise in the trade - weighted index in recent months has been due mainly to the weakness being experienced by the Japanese yen.

Among the latter were a contraction in international demand for electronics and a loss of competitiveness as currencies appreciated with the US dollar against the yen.