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Japan ist wie Deutschland ein sehr starkes Exportland. Insbesondere Kraftfahrzeuge und Elektronikartikel werden exportiert, wobei die wichtigsten Handelspartner China und die USA sind. Das Credo der Handelspartner lautet Technologie gegen Rohstoffe. Der japanisch/ europäische Außenhandel ist relativ geringfügig.
A Panicking Japan Considers Shorting Oil To Prop Up The Crashing Yen
With the yen collapse accelerating, and pushing the USDJPY above 160 for the first time since 2024, markets are on edge expecting a BOJ intervention at any moment as this was the price when the BOJ intervened last time.
However, with BOJ interventions having been consistently proven futile with a half life of just weeks if not days, Japan - facing soaring inflation yet desperate not to raise rates as that would crash the stock market - is weighing a controversial (some would say idiotic) new plan to arrest the yen's slide: stepping into oil futures markets.
Reuters was informed by "market sources" that Japan's government is considering intervening in the crude oil futures market as the Middle East crisis drives energy prices up sharply. Under the scheme, Japan would tap its $1.4-trillion foreign exchange reserves and build short positions in the oil futures market by selling futures contracts to push down p...
Japan's finance minister flagged the possibility of taking “bold actions” to counter currency moves, a reference to intervention, as the yen traded near a threshold where authorities entered the market on several occasions in 2024....
Japan's heavy reliance on imported oil means swings in crude prices feed quickly into its currency and trade balance. The government has hinted that it might step into the oil market in an indirect bid to support the weakening yen, as the war in the Middle East drives up energy costs and threatens the global economy....
Takehiko Nakao, Japan's former currency chief and former President at the Asian Development Bank, speaks with Bloomberg's Stephen Engle at the Boao Forum on the impact of the Iran war on Asian economies and central banks, the weak yen and the how AI is influencing productivity. (Source: Bloomberg)...
The yen is likely to trade in a 158.50-160.00 range against the dollar, remaining whipsawed by headlines related to Mideast tensions, said Sony Financial Group....