Japan’s monetary authorities have a broad range of tools available to address market liquidity needs.
These include potential access, as appropriate, to the Federal Reserve’s standing Foreign and International Monetary Authorities (FIMA) Repo Facility, which can provide temporary U.S. dollar liquidity against U.S. Treasury securities.
We remain prepared to use available tools as necessary to support orderly market functioning.
BREAKING: Japan and the US may unveil a joint policy as early as next week to stop the yen from crashing, per Kyodo News.
The announcement would serve as a warning to speculators betting against the yen.
This comes after the US Treasury bought yen on Friday, its first yen-buying intervention with Tokyo in more than a decade.
The New York Fed sold euros for yen through Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
A photo of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's notepad showed a to-do list with the words "Buy Japanese Yen (JPY) $5-10 bil."
USD/JPY fell from 158.9 to 157.6 in under an hour on the news.
WESTINGHOUSE, WHICH POWERS MORE THAN HALF THE WORLD'S NUCLEAR REACTORS, JUST FILED CONFIDENTIALLY FOR A US IPO
The company filed confidentially... Share count and price range haven't been determined yet, subject to market conditions.
Westinghouse is jointly owned by Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco $CCJ, after Cameco agreed to buy a 49% stake at roughly an $8 billion valuation in a deal completed in 2023.
Westinghouse's nuclear technology is used by 57% of the world's 417 nuclear reactors, and the company has a pipeline of up to 91 opportunities for its latest-generation reactor, per Cameco's own earnings release - Bloomberg