Yen Quotes

We`ve already seen the yen hit a little bit by people moving away from instant belief that there was going to be an interest-rate tightening. Japanese economy is still quite robust and my mid-year expectation is the yen will strengthen from where it is today.

They`re shorting the yen and that`s the right attitude. There`s a feeling we`re reaching some kind of endgame,

Dollar/yen has responded to horrific weakness in data which has continued over the last business day in Japan. Machinery orders were a bit of a horror story.

That kicked into the equities market. Around 25 percent of bank profits come through bond holdings. If they are losing these capital gains then the banks are hit. People then started selling the yen because I think they started fearing things are not smelling too good here.

When the yen falls against the dollar it changes the appetite of Japanese investors for U.S. bonds. Recently, as the yen has fallen against the dollar, dollar bonds look more expensive to Japanese investors and they buy fewer of them.

It is tough to see the yen weakening dramatically. And it`s pretty easy to make a case for it continuing to go stronger.

For the yen it`s much to do with oil prices. High oil prices are an unambiguous negative for all Asian currencies but the yen`s sensitivity is historically high,

After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.

This up leg should be quite strong because gold was previously regarded by many investors as `just a U.S. dollar story`. Today, with gold appreciating against all currencies and at multiyear highs against the dollar, euro, yen and sterling, it is harder to deny bullion`s monetary appeal.

The yen has been falling against the dollar and the crosses for a while, and now we`re seeing some short-covering and profit-taking on long positions that have been piling up.

We will see the strength in equities helping out the yen.

Koizumi is seen as a reformer, and that`s a good thing for the country and good for the yen, ... The big rise in the Nikkei will help the yen. We`ve seen substantial inflows into Japan.

Koizumi is seen as a reformer, and that`s a good thing for the country and good for the yen. The big rise in the Nikkei will help the yen. We`ve seen substantial inflows into Japan.

I do think that it is a good thing, ... It creates excess supply of the yen, and it will have a similar effect to lowering interest rates and achieve a lot of the objectives that many officials want them to do.

What I`m seeing is that confidence in the Japanese economy is starting to gain. And as people get more comfortable investing in Japanese equities and other Japanese assets, they need to buy yen. And as they buy these yen, the dollar goes down.