While Japan’s government will almost certainly refrain from direct intervention on the foreign exchange markets to stem the recent appreciation of the yen, we can’t rule out that the government’s pension fund will buy more foreign assets. The key point though is that foreign exchange intervention probably won’t prevent the yen from strengthening if risk aversion intensifies further.
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