Japan shifts to ambush intervention tactics against Japanese Yen short sellers — Reuters
Japanese officials are moving away from telegraphing intervention risk and signaling a more targeted campaign to squeeze speculators and raise the cost of betting against the battered Japanese Yen (JPY), Reuters reported on Thursday.
Authorities are also avoiding any suggestion of a specific yen level that would trigger intervention, with timing instead focused on preventing excessive falls.
The sources said that the shift reflects a more aggressive approach by the Ministry of Finance (MOF), which is using silence as a policy tool to keep traders guessing. That raises the risk of a surprise intervention driven by an accumulation of speculative short-JPY bets rather than by the currency crossing a publicly understood threshold.
Market reaction
At press time, the USD/JPY pair trades 0.10% lower at around 162.42.
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