Market expectations are clear, but the Bank of Japan's narrative is chaotic at best
Tuesday's session on international financial markets is focused on American CPI data for February. The importance of this report for the Fed's monetary policy and general investor sentiment is so great that [...]
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July 11 2023
The retraction of the carry trade on the Japanese yen is impressive. The yen shot up
But let's start from the beginning. Carry trade (not to be confused with curry spice ;) ) is an investment strategy that consists in borrowing money in a currency with a low interest rate, and then investing these funds in a currency with [...]
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9 March 2023
Market fireworks to say goodbye to H. Kuroda. The volatility for JPY is impressive
Jerome Powell has been the focus of the markets' full attention recently, but in the broader context, what is happening outside the Fed and how other central banks are dealing with their challenges should not be forgotten. Taken there [...]
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8 February 2023
EUR and JPY, the currencies of countries that may prove to be the safest
There was a massive retreat from the US dollar in QXNUMX as the market ignored the Fed's mantra about the need to keep the reference rate "higher for longer", which significantly reversed the US [...]