THE Japanese yen broke through a key barrier 105 to hit a four-year high against the US dollar yesterday, as months of sustained intervention by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) in the foreign exchange markets gave way to market forces.
Widespread speculation that the BoJ would finally be scaling down its heavy interventions in the forex markets today at the start of Japan's new business year fuelled a wave of dollar-selling by US hedge funds.
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