Sunny Wyers

TOKYO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - China should further deregulate capital flows to deepen Asian financial markets and make them more resilient to external shocks, a Bank of Japan deputy governor said on Wednesday. The country should liberalise its markets so more ...

The second surprise was the confirmation by the Bank of Japan that following the record one day intervention on October 31, it did in fact intervene during the following days in a stealth mode. To be fair, there had been some market talk that this was ...

The Bank of Japan must be praying for Greek gods to intervene. The yen is already back up close to levels that forced the Japanese central bank to wade into the market at the end of October last year. And, if Greek debt negotiations continue to ...

Traders do try to find out about stealth intervention though when they think it’s actually taking place, guessing at the Bank of Japan’s daily account figures. In November’s case, dealers said one commercial bank was selling the yen at a ...

When the Federal Reserve flagged a new round of aggressive monetary easing back in August 2010, the yen rally that followed wrong-footed Japanese central bankers and forced them to act under pressure from angry politicians and fast-moving markets.

Japanese officials are once again trying to shout down the yen. The finance minister has gone as far as asking the central bank to resume printing money. A weaker yen would help the country’s beleaguered exporters. But it could also hit the savings of ...

Bank of Japan intervention alerts should be switched on again. If anything, they should be turned on even louder than before. For a few weeks there, the need for intervention subsided. The yen had fallen back, much to the relief of Japanese ...

Japan’s economy is expected to shrink 0.4 percent in fiscal 2011, the country’s central bank forecast yesterday, a reversal of its previous projection of 0.3 percent growth. The Bank of Japan said it expected growth of 2 percent in fiscal 2012, a ...