Morning Edition · Monday, August 3, 2026Published at 1:28 AM EDT · New York
United States and Japan Confirm First Joint Yen Intervention in 15 Years
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States 'will not hesitate' to repeat the coordinated yen-buying, and that it drew on a Federal Reserve lending facility to do so.
The United States and Japan have confirmed a rare coordinated intervention to support the yen, their first joint action in the currency market in about 15 years. Al Jazeera reports that Japan's Ministry of Finance conducted joint yen-buying…
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State Currency Intervention Returns
As policy divergence strains major currency pairs, governments increasingly resort to coordinated intervention to manage disorderly moves, injecting episodic volatility into the dollar system and the risk assets that depend on its liquidity.
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