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Introduction: Yen at 38-year low against the dollar
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Pressure is piling on Japan’s authorities to intervene in the foreign exchange markets, after the yen weakened to a 38-year low against the US dollar.
The yen, which has been ailing for some months, has weakened to as low as 160.8 to the dollar, for the first time since 1986.
That takes…
