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A weak yen is good for U.S. tourists heading to Japan, meaning each $1 of theirs buys more yen. It can also be a boon for Japan's exporters because it boosts the value of their sales made in U.S ...
The weak yen was once a cause for celebration for Japanese companies, as they could sell cars and cameras cheaper abroad and enjoyed fatter profits when earnings were brought home. After years of ...
Why Japan’s stock market is breaking 35-year records even as its economy falls into recession: Welcome to the investing world of ‘not that bad’ ... A weak yen is making Japanese imports more ...
yen expensive) or Endaka Fukyo (Japanese: 円高不況, lit. yen expensive recession) is a state in which the value of the Japanese yen is high compared to other currencies. Since the economy of Japan is highly dependent on exports, this can cause Japan to fall into an economic recession. The opposite of endaka is en'yasu (Japanese: 円安, lit ...
Japan has a long and storied history of weakening the yen to favor their exports. But this would be the first time since 1998 that the bank would intervene to strengthen the currency .
This capital flow increased the supply of yen in foreign-exchange markets, as Japanese investors changed their yen for other currencies (mainly dollars) to invest overseas. This kept the yen weak relative to the dollar and fostered the rapid rise in the Japanese trade surplus that took place in the 1980s.
The Lost Decades are a lengthy period of economic stagnation in Japan precipitated by the asset price bubble's collapse beginning in 1990. The singular term Lost Decade (失われた10年, Ushinawareta Jūnen) originally referred to the 1990s, [1] but the 2000s (Lost 20 Years, 失われた20年) [2] and the 2010s (Lost 30 Years, 失われた30年) [3] [4] [5] have been included by commentators ...
WHY IS THE YEN WEAK? The Japanese yen fell past the psychological 135 line to levels against the U.S. dollar last seen in October 1998. The Bank of Japan and the Japanese government on Friday gave ...