Bank of Japan

The yen quickly weakened beyond the 150 mark against the US dollar

The intervention, ordered up by the Ministry of Finance, comes with risks if it fails to scare off speculators.

Investors should not be deterred by Nikkei‘s rout. Japan may fight back like the Karate Kid.

Admittedly, there is no telling when the current phase will end.

Abe is known as a key supporter of BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s policy of maintaining rock-bottom interest rates

TOKYO (June 22): Japan is famous as a land of robots, but most of those machines haven’t made their way off of factory floors.

NEW YORK (Jan 22): The world’s biggest bond market probably needs a little push from central banks to prop up yields at the highest in more than three years.

SINGAPORE (Dec 5): Central banks will be tightening monetary policies in 2018, but this is no cause for alarm, as higher rates could usher in opportunities, according to financial firm UBS in its The Year Ahead 2018.

(April 19): After heading into the uncharted territory of quantitative easing, the world’s central banks are starting to plan their course through the uncharted waters of quantitative tightening.