The Japanese Finance Minister has floated the possibility of another round of intervention in foreign exchange markets, this time aimed at stemming the rise of the yen against the euro. However, this would not necessarily require purchases of the European currency. Indeed, any intervention that weakened the yen by a given amount against the dollar would have the same effect on the exchange rate between the yen and the euro, and vice versa.
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