Japan sets the agenda

Review Right now Japan is pivotal for the financial market. Overnight Nikkei fell once again. At the time of writing this, Nikkei is down by no less than 5%, and for a while it was down by almost 7%. But not only the equity market is caving in. USDJPY is now down by almost 9% since 23 May. The trigger for the steep decline is Fed Chief Ben Bernanke and his speech on 22 May where he stated that the Fed sees a growing probability that it will be begin to reduce its monthly QE earlier than

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Japan sets the agenda