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Japan makes forex intervention threat

Finance minister Taro Aso makes first direct reference to the possibility of a move

Japan’s finance minister said he was “prepared to undertake intervention” in the foreign exchange market if the yen rose further and sharply, describing more explicitly than before a policy the US opposes.

The comment by Taro Aso in parliament on May 9 was his first direct reference to the possibility of intervention during his tenure as finance minister under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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