MUMBAI (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar's weakness since the start of Donald Trump's presidency has made it the preferred funding currency for popular "carry" trades, fuelling heavy flows into ...

Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. The key driver of global markets is the yen exchange rate, according to one financial historian, who warned the trend should concern those ...

Japan is stepping up currency warnings as the yen nears key levels against the dollar.Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Japan is turning up the heat on currency markets again as the ...

Wall Street just logged its best Thanksgiving week since 2012. The Dow jumped 2.7%, the S&P 500 3.7%, and the Nasdaq 4.4% – a holiday surge powered by rate-cut fever and a burst of optimism. And then, ...

Japan's bond market is igniting fears of capital flight from the U.S. and a carry trade unwind as long-dated yields hover near record highs. Yields resumed their move higher Wednesday as demand for 40 ...

(Bloomberg) -- The yen carry trade that crashed and burned last year may end up being one of the biggest beneficiaries of Japan’s seismic election result. The popularity of the strategy, which ...

A carry trade involves borrowing in a low-interest currency and using those funds to invest in a higher-yielding one to create the carry. Among FX Concepts’ models are several short positions in which ...

European Central Bank (ECB) governor Mario Draghi’s recent package of measures – including an asset-backed securities (ABS) and covered bond purchasing programme and a 10 basis point euro rate cut – ...

Emerging-market currency volatility at a one-year low is poised to sap demand for Asian foreign exchange in favor of its higher-yielding European and Latin American peers. Falling volatility means ...

The carry trade in the yen is “a ticking time bomb,” with the popular hedge-fund strategy vulnerable to a massive unwind, according to BCA Research analysts. The trade — broadly defined as borrowing ...

Japan's bond market is igniting fears of capital flight from the U.S. and a carry trade unwind as long-dated yields hover near record highs. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are.