{"id":70670,"date":"2025-10-10T01:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70670\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:05:16","slug":"japans-takaichi-denies-intention-to-spur-further-yen-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/70670\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Takaichi Denies Intention to Spur Further Yen Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Japan\u2019s new ruling party chief Sanae Takaichi pushed back against the view she favors further weakness in the yen, a comment that follows a slump in the currency in the aftermath of her leadership win at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cI have no intention of triggering an excessively weak yen. But, just as a rule of thumb, I would say there are both merits and demerits to a weak yen,\u201d Takaichi said in an interview on Japanese TV. \u201cFor export-focused companies, this is a buffer, given the concerns over the Trump tariffs.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s new ruling party chief Sanae Takaichi pushed back against the view she favors further weakness in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[43071,128,72,1096,14843,4990,113,61,5232,60,582,43233,26562,3667,1650,28510],"class_list":["post-70670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bank-of-japan-the","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-currency","tag-democratic-party","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-interest-rates","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-japanese-yen-spot","tag-liberal","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-us-dollar-spot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}