MACROSTORY 638· AUGUST 4, 2026

Currency intervention by the US and Japan is unlikely to halt the yen's slide, analysis finds

The Japanese yen is falling, and the two governments best positioned to arrest that decline may not be able to. Analysis of the currency market finds that coordinated action by the United States and Japan to support the yen would likely…

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