Global Multi-Asset Investment Strategist, True Insights

Jeroen Blokland

All-round Multi-Asset investor. Former head of a EUR 5 billion multi-asset fund range. Speaker. Charts & Frameworks. Founder of True Insights, a provider of independent investment research, trade ideas & well-diversified portfolios.
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Global Multi-Asset Investment Strategist

Japan Taking a Trip Down Tightening Lane? Sure!

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Macroeconomics

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<li>The catalyst: Japan’s Vice Finance Minister. ‘The current weakening of the yen is not in line with fundamentals and is clearly driven by speculation.’</li>
<li>As the Bank of Japan will not or only marginally hike its policy rate from here, the interest rate differential can only go one way. </li>
<li>China to the rescue? China needs a stable currency, at least not a weaker one. </li>
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The catalyst: Japan’s Vice Finance Minister. ‘The current weakening of the yen is not in line with fundamentals and is clearly driven by speculation.’
As the Bank of Japan will not or only marginally hike its policy rate from here, the interest rate differential can only go one way. 
China to the rescue? China needs a stable currency, at least not a weaker one. 


A Dicey Short-Term FX Trade