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[yen] / yɛn /


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Alphabet has issued bonds not only in U.S. dollars, but also in Canadian dollars, Japanese yen, euros, Swiss francs and British pounds—the currency in which it issued a rare 100-year bond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

In January, it signaled it might buy yen, then under severe downward pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

The brokerage lifts this fiscal year’s operating-profit forecast for the Japanese company to 96 billion yen from 79 billion yen to reflect higher estimates for thermal solutions and high-frequency copper foil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The cheap yen provides two ways to win.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Clovis people were thought to have a special yen for mammoth: great ambulatory meat lockers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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