The yen could come under fresh selling pressure in the weeks ahead.
Until recently, the dollar's topside was capped by Japanese institutional investors' sales to repatriate money from markets overseas, but no longer. They now appear to have switched back to foreign securities.
Foreign hedge funds have reactivated their carry trade, where they borrow yen in Japan at low interest rates and convert them to dollars at higher rates elsewhere.
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