BREAKING: Yen Carry Trade Is Back!
Rebel Capitalist News
George Gammon
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love fellow Rebel Capital, so be well. So everyone remembers the Yenne carry trade blow up from just a few weeks ago, but unfortunately we haven't heard the last of the yen carry trade. |
| 0:15.1 | Let's go right over to Zero Hedge and I'll show you guys what I'm referring to. |
| 0:19.0 | The Japanese Central Bank, the BOJ just came out with huge, huge news about their interest rate policy moving |
| 0:29.8 | forward. |
| 0:30.8 | Remember, they've been in a rate hiking cycle, if you want to call it that, which led to this whole Japanese |
| 0:37.5 | yen blow up because the yen appreciated against the dollar and unwound a lot of that carry trade. Let's get right over to Zero Hedge and |
| 0:46.4 | check out what's going on now. So, Yen Craters as Japan gives up on further rate hikes, |
| 0:54.0 | Cary Trade is back with the bank. |
| 0:55.4 | So what's going on here is everyone in the marketplace |
| 1:00.8 | believed the BOJ that they were going to continue to hike rates. |
| 1:04.8 | They were going to normalize rates. |
| 1:07.2 | But if you guys remember me, well I've said this a few times on the channel where the last time I was in St Bart's actually the time prior I apologize the time |
| 1:16.7 | prior I was talking to my good buddy Steve who has been one of the top hedge fund managers |
| 1:21.4 | he's retired but was one of the top hedge fund managers, he's retired, but was one of the top hedge fund managers for 40 years. |
| 1:27.0 | In fact, he started in Japan in the late 1980s. |
| 1:31.5 | And this is right about when the yen was about 160 |
| 1:36.3 | and the Ministry of Finance |
| 1:39.6 | came in and intervened in the market |
| 1:41.7 | to try to get the yen to appreciate because it was declining rapidly |
| 1:47.0 | against the dollar. And that's when the Central Bank also started to take interest rates up and I mean up I mean from like 10 |
| 1:57.2 | negative 10 basis points up to like positive 10 basis points not really up that much. But they started this rate hiking |
| 2:05.4 | cycle if you want to call it that, which makes the yen appreciate and that's what blew up the |
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