(Bloomberg) — Currency traders braced for possible intervention to support the yen Monday after it touched a 32-year low and neared the key psychological 150 per dollar level.
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The Japanese currency closed at just under 148.70 Friday, capping nine straight weeks of losses. Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said Friday that Japan is “deeply concerned” about rapidly increasing volatility in the market and chief currency official Masato Kanda said authorities were prepared to take “bold action.”
The strong words were just the latest in a series of warnings over speculative currency moves following the yen’s slump to a three-decade low, as authorities tried to dissuade traders from testing its intervention strategy. A rapid slide in the yen to 145.90 per dollar last month triggered the nation’s first intervention to support the currency in 24 years.
Strategists have said Japanese officials won’t necessarily have a line in the sand at which they’ll act again and are likely focusing on the speed of declines. But some have also said 150 is a key psychological level for Japanese citizens and a breach would likely heap pressure on the government domestically to act again.
“Markets might thus further raise the bar toward 150, which many investors suspect is the maximum fall of the yen Japanese authorities might tolerate at present,” wrote UniCredit FX strategist Roberto Mialich in a note Friday. With expected volatility high, “market nervousness is thus set to continue.”
The yen has tumbled about 23% against the dollar this year due to a widening monetary policy differential between the US and Japan. It erased last month’s intervention-driven gains despite the ministry’s 2.84 trillion yen ($19.5 billion) spend.
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