The Japanese yen has rebounded a bit today on the back of US Treasury Secretary Bessent’s latest foray into verbal currency intervention (this time in favour of the yen), but it remains near its weakest point since early 2025. We think that Bessent will eventually get his way, and that the yen will rebound as the monetary policy gap between the US and Japan gradually shrinks.
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