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...From roughly 1pm Tokyo time, the yen began strengthening sharply from about ¥159.5 to a level of ¥155.2 about 50 minutes later — a huge shift that traders in Hong Kong said could have been produced by the...
...A leadership contest had been expected to run until April 5....
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...Leo Varadkar is to step down as Ireland’s prime minister and leader of the Fine Gael party in an unexpected decision that government sources said would not trigger an immediate general election....
...bank, were eliminated from the search for a new president at a relatively early stage....
...Money market brokers produce their own forecasts of what these levels will be, and a large discrepancy can be a tell-tale sign that intervention took place....
...And I mean, is there, as Leo seems to be implying, a kind of sleight of hand going on?...
...The yen briefly plunged past the key ¥160 level against the dollar on Monday, plumbing a new 34-year low and intensifying speculation that the Japanese authorities will be forced to intervene later this...
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...The appointment of Imatsu hands the top position at Goldman to a banker with a background in trading....
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...Despite four decades in the House of Commons, Frank Field was a minister for little more than a year and never reached the Cabinet....
...“Currency rates are not a target of monetary policy to directly control,” said Ueda in a press conference following the BoJ’s rate announcement....
...One of the more immediate ones may be to force a debate on the desirability of corporate Japan still owning — and often concealing — the treasures it amassed in the 1980s. leo.lewis@ft.com...
...Leo Varadkar is to step down as Ireland’s prime minister in a shock decision, saying he was no longer the right person to lead his party into a general election due within a year....
...The leg would take less than a minute. But Kawakatsu, a former economist at one of Japan’s top universities, has blocked construction for about a decade on environmental grounds....
...leo.lewis@ft.com, sara.germano@ft.com Letter in response to this article:For future reference . . . / From Larry Curtis, Parkland, FL, US...
...I accept the invitation and look forward to another well-earned hangover and perhaps a new friend. Leo Vardiashvili is the author of ‘Hard by a Great Forest’, published by Bloomsbury, £16.99....
...The population of under-15s in Japan now stands at a record low of 11.4 per cent of the overall population, while the number of over-75s stands at a record high of 16.1 per cent....
...The number of under-15s in Japan is at a record low of 11.4 per cent of the overall population, while the number of over-65s is at a record high of 29.1 per cent....
...a precursor to a possible official currency intervention operation....
...Leo LewisThere was cheering, there was a standing ovation. And so what happened on Thursday was a very significant psychological moment....
...Forex analysts believe that the Japanese authorities have pencilled in a level of ¥152 per dollar as the “line in the sand” that would trigger a direct intervention....
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