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On the evening of November 13 at 21:15 Moscow time, a report emerged that the Bank of Japan is conducting interventions in the yen. These are direct operations by the regulator in the foreign exchange market, where the central bank itself buys the national currency to stop its weakening.
Japanese Metaplanet (the world's second-largest public corporate holder of Bitcoin) reported a loss of 27.16 billion yen - about $170 million - for the nine months of 2026. A year earlier, for the same period, there was a profit of 13.53 billion yen ($84.6 million).
Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, said on Friday, November 13, on Ethereum CNBC that if data worsen, the Fed will act more aggressively on rates. The dollar thereby moved to a 19-month peak, gold lost more than 4% over the week.
In a report dated November 10, the Japanese holding company SoftBank (one of the world's largest technology investors) disclosed that back in August it had pledged 87 million Intel shares - about 1.6% of all outstanding shares of the chipmaker. It has already received $7.4 billion against the collateral.
The pair reached 159.95 - right up against the round 160 mark and the highest since September 2. Japanese Finance Ministry currency official Atsushi Mimura said markets should not forget about intervention risks, and the rate pulled back from that zone.
Japanese producer output prices rose 7.1% year-on-year in October instead of the expected 6.5%. This increases pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise the rate on December 17-18 - the third time in a calendar year, something that has not happened since 1989.
Japan's largest broker Nomura is in preliminary talks to sell Laser Digital, its crypto business for institutional clients. London-based Marex Group is named among possible buyers. Bloomberg reported this on November 11.
DXY (dollar index, the dollar's exchange rate against a basket of currencies) reached 103.048 during the Asian session on Thursday - for the first time since early April 2025. In the previous session it gained 0.7% after US inflation came in above forecast.
The yen weakens for the second day in a row after October US inflation data. The market has almost fully priced in a Fed rate hike in December, and less than a figure remains to the 160 level, near which Tokyo has already entered the market with interventions.
A group of major banks invested about $270 million in the Faro project - the issuance of its own stablecoin (a coin with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar). The money will cover five years of operation for the issuing company, and the coin's launch itself is stated for the first half of 2027.
US October prices rose faster than expected, and the market almost unanimously bet on a Fed rate hike on December 9. The euro lost 0.28% over the day and is trading around 1.1190.
Clare Lombardelli, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, told the Guardian that she does not rule out a rate hike at the December meeting. For a market accustomed to expecting cuts from the British central bank, this is a reversal in tone.
On Tuesday, the US consumer price report for October is released. The FactSet consensus is plus 0.2% for the month versus 0.6% in September, when annual price growth accelerated to 3.7%, the highest since May.
On November 6, the selloff in tech and semiconductor stocks spread from Wall Street to Tokyo, Seoul and Shenzhen. Asian markets lost more than $1 trillion in value, and in South Korea trading had to be halted by the exchange's automation.
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks today, November 6, at 19:00 MSK. Japan's rate is currently 1.25% - the highest since April 1995, and Ueda is expected to hint whether the next move will come on December 18.
The US publishes its October employment report - the main release of the week for the dollar. Consensus expects +65 thousand non-farm payrolls after a weak +29 thousand a month earlier, and half an hour later the preliminary Michigan index is released.
On Thursday, November 5, the Japanese yen became the strongest currency of the day: money fled from US tech stocks into it, and the Bank of Japan's minutes added to expectations of a December rate hike.
At 03:00 Moscow time on November 5, the Bank of Japan published the minutes of the September meeting: board members agreed that the rate should continue to be raised. The yen is strengthening for the second day in a row, USD/JPY slid to 158.25, EUR/JPY to 177.90.
The DXY dollar index (the dollar's exchange rate against a basket of major currencies) headed toward the 101.00 area on Wednesday, November 4 - a five-week low - losing about 0.5% and falling below 101.50. On Thursday, two catalysts for movement hit the market at once: US labor market statistics and the Bank of England meeting.
After the Democrats' victory in the US midterm elections, Nasdaq-100 futures (contracts on the index of the 100 largest technology companies) fell 2.4% overnight. By 16:11 Moscow time the decline had been fully recovered, and by 17:44 Moscow time the Nasdaq was recording growth of about 2%.
The DXY dollar index fell to 101.40 (-0.44% for the day) after the Democrats took both chambers of Congress. Yet the yen failed to capitalize on this: USD/JPY holds near 158.32, having lost just 0.24%.
On the morning of November 4, the Japanese market moved lower across the entire technology sector. Reuters links the sell-off to fears that a Democratic victory in the US elections will lead to tighter regulation of artificial intelligence.
Micron (MU, the largest American memory manufacturer) shares closed Monday at $833.59 - down $51.15 from the previous price of $884.74. Memory and chips lost more than $400 billion in market capitalization in a single session.
On Tuesday morning BTC lost about 2% and is trading just below $77,000, erasing Monday's rebound. The trigger was a sell-off in the US tech sector: the Nasdaq 100 index dropped 10% from its recent high, meaning it entered a correction.
