The prospect of a renewed widening of the spread between two-year yields in the US and those in Japan is being cited by some as a good reason to expect the yen to weaken if the Fed implements “Operation Twist”. That view seems overly-simplistic. The stronger point is perhaps that Operation Twist is an alternative to further quantitative easing from the Fed, which might otherwise have driven the dollar lower still.
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