Rocky Swift
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- Sep 9, 2026
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Explainer-What is the yen carry trade? (opens the original)
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TOKYO, Sept 9 (Reuters) - With the recent surge in Japan's currency to a seven-month high, investors are wondering if this is the beginning of the end of the yen carry trade that has been a pillar of global markets. That trade, which involves borrowing yen at a low cost to invest in higher-yielding assets, is being undermined by expectations of accelerated rate hikes by the Bank of Japan, as early as its meeting next week. Here is a deeper look at the yen carry trade. The strategy involves bor
Analysis-How Japan's bond rout is turning the tide of global capital (opens the original)
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TOKYO/LONDON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - With benchmark Japanese bond yields breaking through a three-decade-old barrier, higher returns are starting to tease capital home, reversing what was once a dependable flow of funds into global bond markets. The 3% threshold is significant not just for funding costs in Tokyo, but for turning around an investment flow that has made Japan the biggest owner of U.S. Treasuries and one of the most reliable buyers of sovereign debt worldwide. As the global bond rout
Japan bond yields near 3% as inflation, fiscal worries mount (opens the original)
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TOKYO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Japan's benchmark bond yield is on the brink of hitting 3% for the first time since the mid-1990s, highlighting how inflation, rising fiscal concerns and monetary policy expectations are reshaping a market long defined by low interest rates. A 10-year Japanese government bond yield at 3% was practically unthinkable until recently, following more than a decade of massive central bank debt purchases that kept the nation's interest rates artificially low. Now with the Mi
Yen likely to weaken past 170 before Japan's growth bet pays off, RSM's Brusuelas says (opens the original)
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TOKYO, July 17 (Reuters) - The yen may weaken to 170 per dollar and beyond before fruits of the government's stimulus plan engineer a reversal, said RSM US chief economist Joe Brusuelas. The yen's slide to a near 40-year low traces back to policy decisions years ago to flood markets with liquidity and have the Bank of Japan absorb bond issuance rather than accept higher unemployment, Brusuelas said in an interview in Tokyo. An eventual recovery in the yen hinges in part on Prime Minister Sana
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