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Image source: Getty Images. A small-sounding rate hike had a big effect on exchange rates. The yen reacted almost immediately to the rate hike, rising to about 150 to the U.S. dollar from about ...
An epic unwinding of the yen-funded carry trade that has reverberated through global markets may have further to go, analysts said on Tuesday. Days of havoc in global markets have analysts rushing ...
While the popularity of the carry trade among institutional investors is indisputable, its exact magnitude—and its impact on Monday’s calamitous stock market decline—is still an open question.
The mayhem that swept across world markets this week was partly caused by a market strategy known as the “carry trade.” Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 plunged 12.4% on Monday and markets in ...
The yen carry trade unwind remains a risk to the US stock market, Ed Yardeni said. Hawisk comments from Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda spurred fresh volatility last week, he said.
[8] [10] Despite the "Mrs." honorific, about 85% of the retail currency traders in Japan as of 2019 are male, mostly in their 30s, 40s and 50s. [11] Gearoid Reidy of Bloomberg News concluded after research that "Mrs. Watanabe"'s meaning changed over time from a Japanese equivalent of Joe Sixpack or Joe Bloggs to specifically referring to FX ...
A meltdown in world equity markets in recent days is more reflective of a wind-down of carry trades used by investors to juice their bets than a hard and fast shift in the U.S. economic outlook ...
Uridashi bonds became very popular in the 2000s and are often associated with the carry trade in which a loan is made in a low interest currency to buy instruments in a higher yield currency. During the 2008 financial crisis the carry trade and foreign currency bonds in general came under criticism in Japan for contributing to the crisis. [3]