{"id":519349,"date":"2026-07-01T04:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/519349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T04:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:02:12","slug":"yens-slide-puts-market-on-lookout-for-japans-next-red-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/519349\/","title":{"rendered":"Yen\u2019s slide puts market on lookout for Japan\u2019s next red line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The yen\u2019s slide to its weakest against the dollar in four decades has left traders looking for Japan\u2019s next line in the sand for the currency.<\/p>\n<p>After dollar-yen broke through \u00a5162 on Tuesday, strategists increasingly pointed to \u00a5163 and beyond as the next levels to watch, arguing the Finance Ministry may tolerate a weaker currency than during its intervention campaign in 2024. A move to these new thresholds may be swift due to market positioning and U.S. payrolls this week, they said.<\/p>\n<p>This underscores a shift in mindset among traders, driven by concerns the government could have come in harder with comments aimed at pulling the yen away from the weakest level since 1986. In a broader sense, the Bank of Japan\u2019s historic unwinding of rock-bottom rates is also seen as far too gradual to reverse the currency\u2019s deepening slide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The yen\u2019s slide to its weakest against the dollar in four decades has left traders looking for Japan\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2288,42,14989,43,40,38,41,39,4374,24794],"class_list":["post-519349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dollar","tag-headlines","tag-japanese-economy","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519349","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=519349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}