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Japan's historic yen intervention has ‘turbo-charged' the carry trade
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Japanese investors net bought over 5 trillion yen of foreign equities and long-term bonds in the two weeks ending Aug. 15, reversing previous selling. — Massive capital outflows from Japan into foreign assets provide significant liquidity and buying pressure for global risk assets and U.S. Treasuries.
+0.60Investors are utilizing yen rallies caused by government interventions as entry points to rebuild and 'turbo charge' carry trade positions. — This creates a floor for the yen's decline and suggests that currency interventions are failing to stop the structural trend of yen weakness.
+0.40The yen has weakened back toward 159 against the dollar after initially strengthening to 155 following U.S.-Japan intervention. — The rapid surrender of gains confirms that market fundamentals (yield spreads) are overriding policy efforts to prop up the currency.
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Leveraged funds significantly reduced net short yen positions from nearly 138,000 contracts in late June to 59,526 by Aug. 11. — A reduction in speculative shorting reduces immediate downward pressure on the yen, though long-term institutional trends remain bearish.
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