120 Billion Reasons to Sell the Yen!
This past year, one of the few financial instruments in the world was headed to the moon. Which one was that? The yen!
Yeah, the carry trade unwound which caused money to flow away from high yielding currencies and back into low yielding currencies like the yen.
Investors became risk adverse with their money. They poured it into things that had been beaten down for years because it seemed to be a safe place to run to. Thus the yen was a huge beneficiary during this ultimate “fear factor”.
However, recently I started talking to you about a possible turn coming in the yen and that the yen party was about to come to an end soon.
Things go from “Bad to Worse” in Japan
