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In foreign exchange trading on the 7th, the yen strengthened further against the dollar, briefly climbing back into the 154 range — its strongest level in six months, since late February. The move sharply reverses last week’s slide, when the yen had been sold down to the 155.30 range. Behind the shift are expectations of a Bank of Japan rate hike, along with speculation that Japanese and U.S. authorities are working to curb the yen’s rapid depreciation. On 5ch, threads buzzed with a wide range of reactions: posters parsing the Ministry of Finance’s data showing a near-record drop in foreign reserves for clues about actual intervention, speculation over the timing of the BOJ’s next rate hike, and jabs at pundits who had long been predicting “200 yen to the dollar.”
The yen strengthened further in foreign exchange trading on the 7th. Against the dollar, it briefly touched the 154 range — the strongest yen/weakest dollar level in six months, since late February. Yen-buying has intensified on expectations that the Bank of Japan will accelerate rate hikes, along with speculation that Japanese and U.S. authorities will act to curb the yen’s weakness.
In New York trading on the 3rd last week, the dollar briefly rose as high as 155.30 yen. Tokyo trading on the 4th saw it climb even further, to the 155.20 range. In the market, “yen-selling positions had been building up…” (continued in the paid edition, 611 characters remaining)
Nikkei, September 7, 2026, 17:11
Source: nikkei.com / Original article here
What people said
I did say it was still a long way off, desu~
—Emin Yurmaz (mimicking his signature speech tic)
What now?
During the strong-yen era he said it'd hit 50 yen to the dollar.
Bet you didn't know that.
He's just looking out for America's interests
Because stocks tank when it does
If the Nikkei crashes too, this'll finally become a country where honest hard workers get rewarded
You think people who invest aren't working hard? That's some serious cognitive distortion right there
$1.2 trillion is just an absurd amount of money
And the rate only moved 5 yen
Japan holds more U.S. Treasuries than any other country, after all
They fired off a few rounds of selling
But I'd guess Japan's probably still #1?
Right now Takaichi's brain trust is probably desperately lobbying for a weak yen
Funny watching the idiots who blindly believe a weak yen will revive Japan snapping at Bessent
No, the government's just straight-up intervening by dumping U.S. Treasuries
Takaichi has zero intention of listening to Bessent — she's planning to go toe-to-toe with the U.S.
No need to worry about that anymore
Fine by me if it keeps going
Even 140 yen was still weak to begin with
Well, 170 yen by year-end
and the Nikkei hitting 80,000 wouldn't be strange at all
Japan can't really raise rates, but
it wouldn't be surprising if they hiked in September, October, and December
so who knows how long this tug-of-war goes on
Those guys deserve to get wiped out honestly
Especially the ones who went long around 155 hoping for a bounce back to 160 — praying for their lives right now
Here's the USD/JPY chart for roughly the last 10 years. Zoomed out like this, it looks about right — nothing particularly good or bad about it.
If they do, it'll probably push a bit further
If they don't, it'll snap right back
and could even head for 170
A rate cut is basically a done deal at this point, right?
You mean rate hike
They're not gonna cut rates lol
Yeah, that's probably it
Exactly
If Takaichi Sanae and Katayama Satsuki both retire from politics, that alone is worth 15 yen of yen strength
Background and Key Points
This latest bout of yen strength appears to reflect a combination of expectations for a Bank of Japan rate hike and speculation about currency intervention by the Ministry of Finance and the BOJ. Foreign reserves at the end of August, announced by the Ministry of Finance on the 7th, fell $79.58 billion from the previous month to $1.2075 trillion — the largest drop in comparable statistics. Because a sharp decline in foreign reserves typically results from selling assets such as U.S. Treasuries to fund yen-buying intervention, the market took this as evidence supporting intervention speculation. That said, as posters in the thread pointed out, the actual movement in the yen has amounted to only a few yen despite the scale of this drawdown, so it’s easy to misread the drop in reserves as directly proportional to currency moves — it isn’t. Opinions in the thread were also divided over the timing of the BOJ’s next rate hike and how to assess the administration’s economic policy, with no single view standing as the consensus.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News Plus) thread “[FX] Yen Rises, Briefly Hits 154 Range for First Time in Six Months as Bets on Curbing Yen Weakness Grow.”
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