Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made $1 billion betting against the yen as the top investor for George Soros more than a ...
Japan and the US jolted the yen out of an historic slide. US and global stocks keep pressing toward records.
Japan intervention to prop up the yen has as much to do with protecting U.S. Treasury markets as with helping an ally manage ...
The yen found some support on Friday as Japanese officials stepped up their verbal intervention to stem the currency's decline, even as the greenback headed for its biggest weekly rise in six weeks.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. As 2026 unfolds, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a super ...
FOR DECADES Japanese investors sought higher-yielding assets abroad, while interest rates at home stayed low. As a result, the country has amassed foreign investments worth over $10trn, more than ...
The United States and Japan carried out their first coordinated currency intervention in more than a decade: buying yen to arrest its slide to a forty-year low. CFR’s Brad W. Setser explains what is ...
The wobbling Japanese yen could trigger a global financial crisis, but effectively dealing with it is surprisingly ...
Japan-U.S. intervention and hawkish noises from BOJ Gov. Ueda pushed the dollar-yen rate to 156. But entrenched reflation means that rate increases are likely necessary to support further yen ...