Japan may draw the line at USD/JPY 165

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Indosuez Wealth Management’s Alexandre Drabowicz expects Japan to intervene if USD/JPY breaches the 164-165 level but says one-off currency interventions, even with US coordination are unlikely to reverse the yen’s decline. He argues that a sustained recovery will require significantly higher Japanese interest rates to counter rate differentials and the country’s reflationary backdrop.