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Giuliano Giacaglia
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This is the most important story in global finance right now. Japan is seeing their currency devalue due to liquidity problems, given that difference between Japanese interest rates and American ones is really high. Japan can't have its currency devalue or yields go up
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Giuliano Giacaglia
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So the BOJ (Bank of Japan) is intervening in their market and trying to provide liquidity, and trying to hold their currency. The Japanese Yen is used for the carry trade, which is a 20T market. https://tinyurl.com/yvtnbd3a
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If Japan allows the currency to devalue too much, it can cause a death spiral because of all the unwinding of the carry trade. These traders lose a lot of money if the currency devalues causing the currency to devalue more.
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