Japan economy minister Ishihara crossing the wires

Japanese authorities will be concerned with the yen strengthening ... and they'll begin with some jawboning like this

Past experience shows:

  • they'll ramp the jawboning up if the yen keeps on rising
  • ... and it also show there would be a long way to go before we saw anything more substantive from them
  • And it also shows they've been pretty ineffective with such comments ... no one cares :-D