Thursday, 22 September 2011

JPY looks a bit on the high side as well

I observe that currencies seldom go above 1.2 or below 0.8 against the basket, most of them spend most of the time between 0.9 and 1.1. On this basis, the Japanese Yen does look pretty close to the upper limit.

Here are the long and short term charts, click to enlarge:

3 comments:

James Higham said...

January 1990 didn't look too good. what was happening then?

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, I don't know. That's shortly after their land price/stock exchange bubble started popping, I think.

Anonymous said...

Then maybe it's about right now?

AC1