Japan has two more key windows for yen intervention by IMF rules

Ruth Carson & Erica Yokoyama / Bloomberg05-05 07:58

A Japan Finance Ministry official cited an IMF rule on Monday noting that three days of intervention count as a single market operation. (May 5): Japan can conduct only two more sessions of three-day ...

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If the authorities exceed that number, then the IMF tends to classify the exchange-rate regime as floating rather than free floating, the official said.\nThe IMF did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted by Bloomberg.\n“Japan has a lot of FX reserves,” to give it the firepower to intervene in markets, Joey Chew, head of Asia foreign-exchange research at HSBC Holdings Plc, said on Bloomberg Television. “It’s about the efficacy — whether it’s good timing to do it right now when oil prices are still rising.”\nJapan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Monday that the authorities can take bold action on speculative currency moves in line with a US-Japan agreement. 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