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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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
The term carry trade, without further modification, refers to currency carry trade: investors borrow low-yielding currencies and lend (invest in) high-yielding currencies. It is thought to correlate with global financial and exchange rate stability and retracts in use during global liquidity shortages, [ 3 ] but the carry trade is often blamed ...
Beef production in Japan increased from 142,000 tons in 1960 to a peak of 602,000 tons in 1994, and then decreased to 490,000 tons in 2015. [13] Poultry consumption rose significantly from 74,000 tons to 1,375,000 tons in 2015, representing a twenty-fold increase. [14] In 2015, Japan produced 1.185 million cattle and 17.15 million farmed swine.
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The Japanese “pet boom” can be traced back to 2003 where it was estimated that the combined number of cats and dogs in Japan have outnumbered the number of children. [19] The estimated number of pets and children under 16 in Japan was 19.2 and 17.9 million respectively in 2003, and 23.2 million to 17 million in 2009.
Illegal wildlife trade is widespread and constitutes one of the major illegal economic activities, comparable to the traffic of drugs and weapons. [2] Wildlife trade is a serious conservation problem, has a negative effect on the viability of many wildlife populations and is one of the major threats to the survival of vertebrate species. [3]