Topic: Currency Markets
Currency Markets
has 67.5% among topics.
BS Score: 4.9%.
Articles analyzed: 3.
Words analyzed: 2,436.
Analyzed articles
The Japan Times
- By Kazuaki Nagata
- 6/22/2026, 7:20 AM
Unattributed Quote 29.4% - Recency Bias 25.3% - Quote-first Misdirection 23.4%
The yen traded comfortably in intervention territory on Monday and was met only by lukewarm verbal pushback, and then silence, as it crawled within a few tenths of a yen of a multidecade low. Japan’s currency traded at ¥161.7 to the dollar in the afternoon, just short of the ¥161.8 it hit momentarily late last week. If it breaks ¥161.95,... more
The Japan Times
- By Erica Yokoyama, Toru Fujioka
- 6/5/2026, 4:25 AM
Biased Writer Voice 42.2% - Negativity Bias 40% - Appeal to Authority 40%
Japan likely drew on its holdings of foreign securities, including U.S. Treasurys, to finance its record currency market intervention over the past month, a move that may draw attention from Washington. Tokyo’s holdings of foreign securities at the end of May dropped by $75.6 billion from April, according to Finance Ministry reserve data... more
The Japan Times
- By JIJI
- 5/2/2026, 1:09 AM
Unattributed Quote 60.9% - Biased Writer Voice 39.1% - Recency Bias 35.5%
Desperately hoping to stop the yen's rapid depreciation, the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan appeared to have intervened in the currency market for the first time in about two years on Thursday afternoon. Earlier that day, the dollar was trading above ¥160, levels believed to be a red line for the government and the central... more