BOJ’s Rate Rise Triggers Yen Selling and a Likely Concern For Treasury’s Bessent
The Bank of Japan answered U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s call to raise rates, but the yen still weakened, potentially creating a new concern for Bessent, who helped lead the first coordinated support for the yen since 1998 earlier this summer.
First reported by WSJ Markets.
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