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[yen] / yɛn /


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Benchmark 10-year JGB futures are 0.16 yen lower at Y128.53.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“Market forces, including the drag from energy and local asset managers’ reticence to rotate to yen assets, favor a weaker JPY,” Keshvani says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Alphabet has issued bonds not only in U.S. dollars, but also in Canadian dollars, Japanese yen, euros, Swiss francs and British pounds—the currency in which it issued a rare 100-year bond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

In January, it signaled it might buy yen, then under severe downward pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

And do you remember how an easterly breeze brought odors in from Chinatown, roasting pork and punk and black tobacco and yen shi?

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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