PARIS: Further unwinding of so-called carry-trades could be triggered if investors re-evaluate risk, and euro zone and Japanese interest rates climb, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development indicated yesterday.
Carry-trades, where investors borrow low-yielding currencies such as the Japanese yen or Swiss franc to fund purchases of higher return assets, have been very much in vogue in recent years, powering target currencies to multi-year peaks.
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