A snippet from MUFG on the Bank of Japan surprise yesterday, on yen implications:

  • this decision will impact all FX market players – corporate hedging behaviour; investor hedging behaviour; speculative behaviour; and capital flows.
  • The shift from the BoJ merely reinforces a strong and compelling view that the divergence at the heart of the surge in JPY selling in 2022 is going to reverse in 2023, resulting in a reversal of JPY selling that took the Yen to record levels of under-valuation.
  • USD/JPY could be into the 120’s sooner than we expected.

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ICYMI:

Follow through for the yen in Europe and America times:

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Epic USD/JPY move on the Bank of Japan bombshell:

usdyen chart boj ycc 21 December 2022