Japan is not out of room to defend the yen despite busy 2026 intervention year
The practical read for positioning is that Tokyo's ability to act again is not meaningfully constrained, whatever the informal IMF optics suggest, since both reserve capacity and official statements point to room to intervene if the trigger materialises. The nuance worth flagging
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