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...“The risk is that if the intervention comes now, it tells the market that there is a hard line that the authorities will defend, and that invites the market to then test that,” said Benjamin Shatil, a foreign...
...“Multiple bouts of intervention are not changing the fundamental picture of Japan’s lowest-in-pack negative real policy rate,” said Benjamin Shatil, Japan economist at JPMorgan....
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...JPMorgan FX strategist Benjamin Shatil said the yen’s rise reflected the difficulties investors were having simultaneously pricing likely moves next year by both the Fed and BoJ....
...JPMorgan FX strategist Benjamin Shatil said most investors in Tokyo would not have considered the upcoming December meeting to be “live” until Ueda’s comments....
...an exit from YCC without explicitly telling the market they are doing so — it will be feeling in the dark to test how far above reference range we can get — but the direction of travel is clear,” said Benjamin...
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...“The implication here is that a decline in coin usage could hint at a broader inflection in Japan’s cash-is-king philosophy,” said JPMorgan’s Benjamin Shatil, who also noted the sudden coin decline in a...
...“Rightly or wrongly, market participants will conclude that this marks the beginning of the end for YCC,” said Benjamin Shatil, FX strategist at JPMorgan in Tokyo....
...“The market perception is that we are approaching uncomfortable levels, and recent statements from the [finance ministry] have echoes of the run-up to last year’s intervention,” said Benjamin Shatil, a currency...
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...“That’s a good position to be coming into the summer,” Lewis says....
...Benjamin Shatil, Japan FX strategist at JPMorgan, said that even if the Fed was now slowing its pace of rate increases, the persistence of the rate differential with the BoJ meant that intervention was unlikely...
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