Insight: Troubling truths behind the yen
Published: August 5 2009 15:54 | Last updated: August 5 2009 15:54
Should the Japanese yen have a hundred in front of its current Y95 to the dollar?
Since the global credit crunch started, the financial markets have become even more accustomed to treating the yen as a haven, buying it as a liquid hedge along with US Treasury bills (and Swiss francs) when all else goes wrong. As we reach the second anniversary of the start of the panic phases of the credit crisis, not only is there growing evidence we are through the worst but it seems as though markets have lost sight of the underlying issues involving the yen.