{"id":365137,"date":"2026-03-30T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365137\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:51:06","slug":"stocks-fall-5-after-yen-breaks-%c2%a5160-to-the-dollar-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365137\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks fall 5% after yen breaks \u00a5160 to the dollar over the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 stock average sank 5% minutes after opening Monday to a 2026 low as the conflict in the Middle East continues and Brent crude trades above $115 per barrel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The benchmark started the year at 51,010.28 and briefly reached 59,332.43 on Feb. 26, two days before the United States and Israel began their attacks on Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It sank to as low as 50,566.99 on Monday morning, at 9:13 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The yen traded above \u00a5160 to the dollar over the weekend, a threshold that some investors and traders see as triggering government intervention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Atsushi Mimura, vice finance minister for international affairs, said Monday that speculative moves are intensifying in the foreign exchange market.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf this situation continues, decisive measures may soon be necessary,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Nikkei 225 stock average sank 5% minutes after opening Monday to a 2026 low as the conflict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,7199,1435,85,87,46,2374,5839,5268,6874,118013,24794],"class_list":["post-365137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-currencies","tag-energy","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-nikkei","tag-oil","tag-stocks","tag-topix","tag-tse","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}