yen
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The dollar is at 158.85 yen, compared with Y158.50 around Friday’s Tokyo market close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The dollar is at 158.33 yen, compared with Y159.15 around Wednesday’s Tokyo market close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
That could continue to weigh on the buck, potentially opening the door to a dramatic weakening on par with what investors have seen with the Japanese yen.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The dollar is at 159.46 yen, compared with Y159.73 around Tuesday’s Tokyo market close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“He’s got a yen for poetry, Mr. Randolph does.”
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
On the currency front, the yen weakened 0.1% against the dollar to 155.67 yens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Mr. Zorn’s way of presenting “Masada” — a project he first introduced 25 years ago — submits the material fully to the yens of its many performers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door.
From Time Magazine Archive
The typical buyer is a fast tracker between 35 and 40 who yens for something more than an "off the peg" Hatteras 61-footer.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But think of the millions of yens or sens or whatever they are, with which she is going to re-gild the Brandan coronet!"
From Kimono by John Paris
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