Currencies

Yen for intervention

Name: Yen for intervention
Uploaded: 2011-08-04T10:10:18.050Z
Duration: 3 min 24 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: John Authers and Edward Hadas on the chances Japan can maintain a lower currency

Japan this morning followed Switzerland by intervening to weaken its currency, the yen. Lex's John Authers and Edward Hadas discuss these countries' chances of success.

August 4, 2011

Produced by Darryl Thomson. Filmed by James MacDonald.