{"id":12194,"date":"2010-08-19T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T12:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=12194"},"modified":"2010-08-19T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T12:43:03","slug":"forex-news-fears-of-boj-intervention-drives-yen-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/08\/19\/forex-news-fears-of-boj-intervention-drives-yen-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"Forex News: Fears of BOJ Intervention Drives Yen Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By ForexYard<\/strong> &#8211; The Japanese yen dipped against the US dollar on Thursday as jitters  about whether Japanese authorities would take new steps to rein in the  yen&#8217;s rise left investors reluctant to chase it higher.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are watching to see if the central bank will take more  monetary easing steps &#8211; such as expanding liquidity &#8211; ahead of a meeting  between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor  Masaaki Shirakawa expected next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, much stronger-than-expected UK retail sales data this  morning lifted the British pound and helped the euro off earlier lows  against the greenback, though lingering concerns about the health of  countries on the euro zone&#8217;s periphery kept it in negative territory.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Forex <\/strong><strong>Market Analysis provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forexyard.com\/?zone_id=1398\" target=\"_blank\">ForexYard.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2006 by FxYard Ltd<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Trading Foreign Exchange carries a high level of risk and                                                may not be suitable for   all            investors.       There    is  a              possibility           that             you   could       sustain a  loss   of  all     of       your                 investment and            therefore  you             should   not       invest        money  that   you              cannot    afford to            lose. You         should    be       aware  of        all       the     risks         associated     with       Foreign          Exchange         trading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ForexYard &#8211; The Japanese yen dipped against the US dollar on Thursday as jitters about whether Japanese authorities would take new steps to rein in the yen&#8217;s rise left investors reluctant to chase it higher. Investors are watching to see if the central bank will take more monetary easing steps &#8211; such as expanding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/08\/19\/forex-news-fears-of-boj-intervention-drives-yen-lower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forex News: Fears of BOJ Intervention Drives Yen Lower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}