Tag: Japanese Yen
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Japanese $62 billion currency intervention FAILS
After months of speculation from currency traders, the Bank of Japan confirmed that they did a currency intervention to strengthen the falling Japanese Yen. The Bank of Japan confirmed its first currency intervention since 2022 with $62 billion being used to prop the Yen between April 26th 2024 and May 29th 2024. Here was the…
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Bank of Japan raises interest rates for the first time in 17 years
By gawd they did it. They actually did it. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has finally raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years. Ending the world’s only negative rates regime. Truly a historic pivot. The BOJ raised its short-term interest rates to around 0% to 0.1% from -0.1%. The BOJ also announced…
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![Gold markets are on fire, a week away from VRIC 2023]()
Gold markets are on fire, a week away from VRIC 2023
With the beginning of a new year, I look forward to Cambridge House’s Vancouver Resource Investment Conference. A conference which has played a major part in my investing/trading career. It was the first ever financial conference I attended way back in the day when I was a young man. At that time, I was one…
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![Yensanity! Why the Bank of Japan matters!]()
Yensanity! Why the Bank of Japan matters!
Months ago, I warned readers that the Bank of Japan is the most important central bank to be watching. I even did a video explaining why every trader must be watching the Bank of Japan (BoJ). Nobody really cared much about the BoJ since their monetary policy meetings never changed. But things could be changing.…
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![Gold mining in Japan?! 3 junior gold stocks focused on Japan]()
Gold mining in Japan?! 3 junior gold stocks focused on Japan
The nation of Japan has been making headlines recently. Unfortunately not for the best of reasons. The world is still reeling from the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, just two days before the Japanese general election. In elections held on Sunday, the Liberal Democratic Party (the party Abe once led) and its ruling…
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![Stock markets are scary, but this market truly is frightening!]()
Stock markets are scary, but this market truly is frightening!
Stock markets are looking scary, but the debt markets are truly worrying. Before we get to the instability in debt, and what that means, let’s breakdown what is affecting markets. Not a surprise that inflation numbers came out higher than expected. Peak inflation narrative is quickly becoming the new transitory inflation. You will hear this…
