Japanese Yen

Finding the balance

Pete Luxton, global economic advisor at Informa Global Markets in London, assesses whether purchasing power parity can provide a guide to relative currency values, and applies the PPP technique to predict where the G-10 currencies are headed

Homeward bound

Japan has passed the Japanese Homeland Investment Act to encourage investment repatriation. Tohru Sasaki, G-10 foreign exchange strategist at JP Morgan in Tokyo, asks, What impact will this have on the yen?