Bank of Japan’s Kuroda warns recent yen moves ‘quite sharp,’ may hurt businesses

Bank of Japan’s Kuroda warns recent yen moves ‘quite sharp,’ may hurt businesses


Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan, gestures while speaking during a news conference at the central bank’s headquarters in Japan, on March 18, 2022. He said on Monday the yen’s recent moves have been “quite sharp” and could hurt companies’ business plans.

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Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Monday the yen’s recent moves have been “quite sharp” and could hurt companies’ business plans, offering his strongest warning to date of the demerits of the currency’s depreciation.

Traders bought the yen on the comment, helping push the dollar down by 0.22% to 126.28 yen on Monday.

“The recent falls in the yen, which lost about 10 yen to the dollar in about a month, is quite sharp and could make it hard for companies to set business plans,” Kuroda told parliament.

“In that sense, we need to take into account the negative effect” of a weak yen, he said.

Kuroda, however, repeated his view the BOJ must maintain its massive stimulus program to support a fragile economic recovery.

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During the same parliament session, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki reiterated his warning that rapid exchange-rate moves were undesirable and that currency rates must move stably.

But he declined to comment when asked whether Tokyo was ready to intervene in the currency market to stem yen declines.



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