Did Japan's central bank intervene in the currency markets after the yen hit a 34 year low? ‘No comment for now' [Fortune]
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“It was much like a game of bingo — everyone shouting 160 all of a sudden,” said Rodda, a strategist who was sitting among six dealers who saw yen trading volumes surge to around five times more than normal. “Everyone was trying to buy the dip for the next push and trading was going both ways — it was pretty wild.” From Melbourne to Tokyo, market participants were scrambling to trade and make sense of swings in Japan's embattled currency during one of its most volatile days in recent memory. The yen dropped by more than in early trading, before U-turning to rally sharply by more than 2% by around 1 p.m. in Singapore. Exacerbating nervousness was thin liquidity due to a local public holiday, even as investors were on tenterhooks for official intervention to prop up a currency that's wallowing at a 34-year low. Speculation on what caused the swings has been rife. IG Markets said the yen's sudden reversal from losses to gains had “all the hallmarks” of intervention. Not so, othe
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