yen
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That could continue to weigh on the buck, potentially opening the door to a dramatic weakening on par with what investors have seen with the Japanese yen.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Citi upgrades the stock’s rating to buy from neutral and raises the target price to 6,600.0 yen from Y5,000.0.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The dollar is at 159.46 yen, compared with Y159.73 around Tuesday’s Tokyo market close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Ministry of Finance is scheduled to auction about 2.5 trillion yen of 5-year sovereign notes on Tuesday and around 700 billion yen of 20-year JGBs on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“He’s got a yen for poetry, Mr. Randolph does.”
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
On the currency front, the yen weakened 0.1% against the dollar to 155.67 yens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Mr. Zorn’s way of presenting “Masada” — a project he first introduced 25 years ago — submits the material fully to the yens of its many performers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
The typical buyer is a fast tracker between 35 and 40 who yens for something more than an "off the peg" Hatteras 61-footer.
From Time Magazine Archive
But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door.
From Time Magazine Archive
The volume of our commerce has risen from a few millions to six or seven hundred million yens in less than forty years.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
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