{"id":15836,"date":"2010-11-24T17:54:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=15836"},"modified":"2010-11-24T17:54:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T22:54:51","slug":"japanese-yen-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/11\/24\/japanese-yen-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Yen In Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By James McKee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China has just announced a severe decrease in the amount of precious  metals they will export to Japan and the western world. This spells out  trouble for manufacturing of everything from wind power turbines to  iPods. Many manufacturers are already attempting to cut down the amount  of precious metals in their products as the price of these substances  increase. As these materials increase in price the cost of those  products will also of course increase as time goes on. This spells out  trouble for the GDP of economies who predominantly sell goods involving  these metals. Such countries include Japan (producers) and the United  States (distributors) and their currencies are in trouble as time goes  on.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese Yen is of course best kept at lower values for the nation  of Japan since Japan is chiefly an export country and does not want its  goods to become to expensive to purchase. Perhaps in the short term a  lack of exporting will help the Japanese Yen to fall in value however in  the long term more quantitative easing is almost guaranteed in that  nation if no money is coming from exports. To say the Japanese Yen is in  trouble is an understatement.<\/p>\n<p>With lessened purchasing power the nation of Japan will be less and less  able to purchase anything from China or anyone else. If Japan fails the  United States dollar will suffer heavily in the Forex currency exchange  since American companies distribute the Japanese goods in America. This  type of domino effect outlines the true nature of the global economy we  currently find ourselves in. Pairing the Japanese Yen would be a bad  idea since both currencies are likely to fall drastically in the near  future, instead pair the Japanese Yen with a currency such as the  Australian Dollar which has been rising steadily as of late.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Author is a Forex trader and financial analyst residing in Denver,  Colorado. To stay up to date on all the latest developments in the  financial world and beyond be sure to check out the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/forex.tradingcharts.com\/foreign_exchange_rates\/\" target=\"_new\">forex exchange rates<\/a><\/strong> regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has just announced a severe decrease in the amount of precious metals they will export to Japan and the western world. This spells out trouble for manufacturing of everything from wind power turbines to iPods. Many manufacturers are already&#8230;<\/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-15836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836","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=15836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}