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Japanese Yen Bulls Stay In The Game As Investors Remain Jittery
Thursday, 09 October 2008 22:29:27 GMT  |  Terri Belkas, Currency Strategist
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The Japanese yen eased back in the morning amidst quiet trading, but subsequently surged amidst a burst of volatility that sent the DJIA and S&P 500 plummeting more than 7 percent.

According to our latest forex correlations report, pairs like USD/JPY remain highly sensitive to the DJIA. The end of the SEC’s ban on short-selling of financial stocks may have had something to do with the move, but the predominant issue is a severe lack of confidence in the markets, and that is why the billions of dollars in liquidity injections by the world’s central banks haven’t really made a dent in deteriorating credit conditions. It is clear that investors remain very jittery, leaving traders unlikely to pile back into carry trades like the Japanese yen crosses. My long-term bias for the Japanese yen: bullish.

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