Yen bulls face reckoning


Yen for currency: The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo. Japan’s benchmarkbond yieldfell to the lowest in more than two years on Friday as a stronger yen and a slowdown inglobal manufacturingspurred demand for the assets as a haven. — Bloomberg

Japan’s economic data continues to dismay

SINGAPORE: Investors growing increasingly bullish on the yen may have to re-examine their outlooks if retail sales and industrial production figures due this week add to mounting evidence that Japan’s economy is slowing.

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