Bank of Japan

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Intervention only buys time with more fundamental steps needed to reverse the yen’s downtrend, said Mitsuhiro Furusawa

Yen’s weakness was pushing up import costs and broader inflation

Weakness has crept back into the Japanese currency as market participants refocus on underlying drivers

At its meeting last month, the Japanese central bank held its policy rate at 1% and signalled that it could possibly raise it in September

Pullback underscores the limits of intervention in reversing the yen’s longer-term decline

Markets remained watchful as tensions continued to play out in the Gulf

Real wages gained 1.7%, marking a sixth straight month of gains

Inflationary pressure is being amplified by a rapidly weakening yen