137Labs: Yen carry trade’s 30-year old order faces restructuring
In June, the Bank of Japan announced it would raise its policy rate to 1%, the first time Japan has reached that level since 1995. 137Labs analysis shows that over the past twenty-plus years, large amounts of international capital borrowed Japanese yen at nearly zero cost and allocated to risk assets such as U.S. technology stocks, emerging market bonds, commodities, and global real estate; this “Yen Carry Trade” structure is one of the key underlying logics driving global asset price increases.
MarketWhisper·06-18 03:50
