What is currency manipulation? | CNBC Explains

2017 ж. 8 Мау.
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President Trump has backtracked on calling China a currency manipulator, but what does it mean exactly? CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explains.
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  • I don't think he explained how they manipulate it

    @doodelay@doodelay6 жыл бұрын
    • doodelay yeah I still don't get it

      @Flowerz__@Flowerz__6 жыл бұрын
    • doodelay by devaluation or bringing down the price of a yuan against dollar so when u but stuff from China it's cheaper

      @anitagarg3316@anitagarg33166 жыл бұрын
    • yes it will make the video to long. you shoud check khan video he use sample example to tell why when your economy is good you money wroth more and it will hurt you back. and how you can keep your money worth less. as a normal people money worth more is good for country or company monery worth less is good

      @beterhans@beterhans6 жыл бұрын
    • beterhans send me link pls

      @ajinkyaubale9713@ajinkyaubale97135 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah sure here is the link will make you understand but you need a little will to learn www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/money-and-banking#china-us-debt-situation

      @beterhans@beterhans5 жыл бұрын
  • Federal Reserve Bank is a currency manipulator. A central banks that creates money out from thin air, that is currency manipulator.

    @gearzone26111@gearzone261116 жыл бұрын
    • gearzone2611 vv

      @carlosdelius747@carlosdelius7476 жыл бұрын
    • I’m going to take everybody with me you think this is a fucking joke where is my money why am I being stopped why am I sitting in the woods drinking all the time there is no jobs I’m tired of working and not getting paid enough to do anything with my life fuck you Donald Trump I hope all of you get hurt

      @lastnameford7703@lastnameford77036 жыл бұрын
    • You may have a point if America defaulted its currency to the gold standard. But it doesn't, the dollar's value doesn't come from how much gold we have, we just give it a value. It's a lot more complicated than that, but that's the basic gist.

      @godzilla964@godzilla9645 жыл бұрын
    • @Leo Bruno The difference is that when a country's central bank creates money from nothing, they cause inflation in their own country. The US Dollar, on the other hand, is the reserve currency of the entire world. So when the Federal Reserve creates money, it causes inflation in the entire world economy. The US economy takes advantage and every other nation pays the cost. Why do you think the US wages all these wars? (hint: they don't want any other currency to replace the dollar)

      @kiantamar@kiantamar4 жыл бұрын
    • @@godzilla964, if our elected officers could be trusted to manage the national fisc honestly, there wouldn't be a Federal Reserve

      @phillipgaley4416@phillipgaley44164 жыл бұрын
  • This was a poor explanation, in compharison with other CNBC videos. You could've talked about the market mechanisms that make currency manipulation possible and also give some examples of market manipulation in history; Talk about how that affects the life of people, entrepreneurs, politics and the market itself, too. I'm just saying it cause I know you guys can do better than that.

    @felipealvesdourado1584@felipealvesdourado15845 жыл бұрын
  • What's up with all this childish and stupid background music!

    @abhaypatil87@abhaypatil874 жыл бұрын
  • Next do a video on “HOW to manipulate currency”

    @enteradj@enteradj4 жыл бұрын
    • Lol, I'm game.

      @rockycomet4587@rockycomet45874 жыл бұрын
  • This is THE worst explanation of currency manipulation.

    @josiegabriel1503@josiegabriel15034 жыл бұрын
    • I'll explain simpler. Market value of an African currency is very low. US dollar has a high market value. Who determines the currency values? Investors and common men who invest in foreign currency based on the projection of the country economic growth. The US can get something for 10 cents if it made it in Africa, where as it would cost a dollar to make it in the USA. Reason? currency market value. So now US companies give 500 billions of dollar to African companies to manufacture for them. Now the African companies need to convert the US dollars they received into African currency so that they can buy and pay people and raw materials and start the work. When they buy the African currency using US dollar, demand for African currency goes up increases the market rates. Now since billions of newly traded African currency is brought back to Africa, the value of the African currency inside African goes down. They call it inflation, hence what was costing 10 cent to make in Africa will now cost 20 cents, because of both inflation in Africa and increase market value of the African currency. Because it is now more expensive the US companies will not give the same amount of business to African anymore. So the African government does shady thing to manipulate by the market value of African currency by purchasing billions of the US dollars from their reserves of the African currency they have. This will increase the US dollar and reduce the market value of the African currency, because there is more supply of African currency in the Foreign Currency Exchange Market.

      @bkit5@bkit54 жыл бұрын
    • agree

      @darmanhashim@darmanhashim4 жыл бұрын
    • well yes, it could've been better.

      @brennencox516@brennencox5164 жыл бұрын
  • Please explain things in detail and not just gloss over. At the end of the day this video is not for kids

    @sevenhenson3926@sevenhenson39266 жыл бұрын
    • I'll explain simpler. Market value of an African currency is very low. US dollar has a high market value. Who determines the currency values? Investors and common men who invest in foreign currency based on the projection of the country economic growth. The US can get something for 10 cents if it made it in Africa, where as it would cost a dollar to make it in the USA. Reason? currency market value. So now US companies give 500 billions of dollar to African companies to manufacture for them. Now the African companies need to convert the US dollars they received into African currency so that they can buy and pay people and raw materials and start the work. When they buy the African currency using US dollar, demand for African currency goes up increases the market rates. Now since billions of newly traded African currency is brought back to Africa, the value of the African currency inside African goes down. They call it inflation, hence what was costing 10 cent to make in Africa will now cost 20 cents, because of both inflation in Africa and increase market value of the African currency. Because it is now more expensive the US companies will not give the same amount of business to African anymore. So the African government does shady thing to manipulate by the market value of African currency by purchasing billions of the US dollars from their reserves of the African currency they have. This will increase the US dollar and reduce the market value of the African currency, because there is more supply of African currency in the Foreign Currency Exchange Market.

      @bkit5@bkit54 жыл бұрын
    • @@bkit5 I.. applause you, thanks!

      @emooki886@emooki8864 жыл бұрын
    • @@bkit5 wow, you're awesome dude at least I got to understand something

      @bismarck9938@bismarck99383 жыл бұрын
  • I'm from South Africa and over 12 banks here manipulated the Rand for 6 years, thus weakening it.

    @werewolf-theshow7260@werewolf-theshow72605 ай бұрын
    • Hai ke. But since the banks are owned by whites nothing will be done there wont be outrage. These people manipulated the rand spending trillions a day but people are still concerned about zuma when our rand collapsed because of the white owned banks.

      @Thegreatest342@Thegreatest3425 ай бұрын
    • What I don't get is how did the commission determine how much we gained or lost from weakening the currency? Banks do this all the time.

      @langap06@langap065 ай бұрын
  • damn, this guy confused me and i still dont get his point!

    @makrolee2730@makrolee27304 жыл бұрын
  • Really nice, but here's how China actually manipulates its currency. If a US compay wants to buy in China, it needs to exchange USD for Yuan. If a European, Turkish or Japanese wants to buy from China, it needs to do the same, hence, the Chinese Yuan will increase in value while the USD, Turskish Lira, Japanese Yen and Euro will decrease in value as they are being "sold". What China does, therefore, is the opposite: buying exchange currency with its own in order to one side, keep the price of USD, €, Yen and Lira high, and keep the price of the Yuan low. Summary: while everyone is buying Chinese Yuan which would normally increase its value, China is buying all other currencies with Yuan to keep the value of the other currencies up and the one of Yuan down.

    @Foxnet121@Foxnet1214 жыл бұрын
    • This makes sense, and is the first explanation I've seen yet that does. Thanks @mon_fi

      @fendermon@fendermon4 жыл бұрын
    • Yes..your explanation makes sense..👍

      @aswintj7414@aswintj74144 жыл бұрын
    • Correct me but I heard a different version... That for many years, China has been buying it's own yuan back from overseas making China lose foreign currency... recently it has stopped buying their own yuan back... hence leading to the recent drop in value fall above 7...

      @fokboy@fokboy4 жыл бұрын
    • @@fokboy Why would China try value their currency? They have no purpose doing so since their economy is mainly resting on exports

      @Foxnet121@Foxnet1214 жыл бұрын
    • @@Foxnet121 True, yet doesn't china have a lot of loans to poor countries? and also a 1 trillion dollar budget for one belt road? Wouldn't decreasing the value of yuan mean decrease in wealth for the chinese too? how does the balance work? Thanks

      @fokboy@fokboy4 жыл бұрын
  • Let's start the barter system again...

    @aviksaha2746@aviksaha27464 жыл бұрын
  • how is the rate of a country 's currency determined

    @kartikeykumarmalkani4178@kartikeykumarmalkani41784 жыл бұрын
  • Though it is tempting to try your hand in currency manipulation, it is hard to do especially if you know it has consequences in the economies of nations, hence a whole population.

    @jggerald7877@jggerald78775 жыл бұрын
  • Print money is a form of currency manipulation.

    @laopang91362@laopang913623 жыл бұрын
  • Loved the way he said it 🤣🤣🤣👌"Choina iz a corrency maniipulator "

    @tapaspanigrahi3331@tapaspanigrahi33314 жыл бұрын
  • Please update this article with more intrinsic detail

    @ronydsa6485@ronydsa64853 жыл бұрын
  • How about printing more of your own currency?

    @DIRKDIGG88@DIRKDIGG883 жыл бұрын
  • Note on the back ground music turn it down it’s hard to hear you speaking as it is!

    @LuisHernandez-tm5jy@LuisHernandez-tm5jy4 жыл бұрын
  • I want to move to the republic of monopoly who else does

    @pirateadventure895@pirateadventure8956 жыл бұрын
    • no thanks imagine u keep landing in jail zone..straight to jail my friend

      @cryptobuzz1680@cryptobuzz16806 жыл бұрын
  • Slim shady track vibe

    @Hellboy8675@Hellboy86754 жыл бұрын
  • Step 1: customer buys Chinese product from Walmart. Walmart gets cash, customer gets product. Step 2: Walmart sends cash to Chinese supplier of product, Chinese supplier sends more product. Step 3: Chinese supplier has no use for US dollars in his operation because they use yuan. He/she/they deposit dollars at bank and receive yuan. Step 4: The local bank deposits dollars at the central bank of China (PBOC) and receives yuan. Step 5: The PBOC deposits dollars at the forex in exchange for yuan.....oops, that won’t work. Because the current account deficits are so large the dollar deposits cause a glut of dollars at the forex and creates a situation where the dollar is devalued against the yuan. A devalued dollar causes prices in the US to rise, price inflation. This, left unchecked, would result in a natural balance of trade. Step 6: In order to abide by the US political interest to keep US consumer prices low, the Chinese don’t deposit the dollars at the forex, they purchase US treasuries. This enables the US to fund it’s massive budget deficits while simultaneously keeping consumer prices low. How much longer will this arrangement function? I don’t know but but it doesn’t end well.

    @1960rlv@1960rlv3 жыл бұрын
  • Turn the music volume down

    @georgeashby4852@georgeashby48523 жыл бұрын
  • the music is higher than the voice

    @davidchristian8473@davidchristian84734 жыл бұрын
  • You guys are putting great learning videos on your KZhead Channel. Great work guys... Keep rocking...

    @gunjanmehta5102@gunjanmehta51024 жыл бұрын
  • so touching for an excellent video

    @trangho9221@trangho92212 жыл бұрын
  • Under what law?

    @floridafurbabiessales4196@floridafurbabiessales41964 жыл бұрын
  • Is the guy at 0:55 from Buzz Feed's Worth IT series?

    @ramrajasagi8124@ramrajasagi81244 жыл бұрын
  • Lower your music

    @katwillny@katwillny4 жыл бұрын
  • As usual , everything except the interesting point, How does the monopoly money go from ten=1dollar to eight=1dollar. It beggars belief how this wouldnt occur to the producers here.

    @noahschmartz2354@noahschmartz23542 жыл бұрын
  • I wish you understood it well enough so you could explain it simply!

    @anasghaffar7837@anasghaffar78373 жыл бұрын
  • Wait? So if someone does better the the USD they fall under currency manipulation?

    @Ahmad_9134@Ahmad_91343 жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for video keep going 🤠 greeting from Morocco

    @zakariazaki7513@zakariazaki75132 жыл бұрын
  • Money: currency manipulator GOLD:😁

    @hermanman8235@hermanman82353 жыл бұрын
  • So how does monopoly money gains value in monopoly land?

    @esoctprod4092@esoctprod40924 жыл бұрын
  • Remember 1970 Plaza Accord

    @reis1185@reis1185 Жыл бұрын
  • 2:24 is that China? What’s in the right hand side of the screen?

    @jessicakoh7386@jessicakoh73863 жыл бұрын
  • There´s no such thing as "currency manipulation". It is just a simpler way to raise or low prices of everything. What China did is kind of quoting themselves higher onto the United States, which is totally acceptable. It is up to american consumers whether to decide buying or not buying to China.. someone please correct me if I am wrong? This video explained nothing..

    @dieguitoviajero5183@dieguitoviajero51835 жыл бұрын
  • A currency plan is vital for a nation to plan Quantive easing etc.

    @curtiscarpenter9881@curtiscarpenter98813 жыл бұрын
  • And Quantitative Easing is not?

    @jon_nomad@jon_nomad3 жыл бұрын
  • Wait so is it a bad thing to manipulate currency? I thought all countries are supposed to depreciate their currencies frequently in order to have a stable economy

    @yourmom-sz7kw@yourmom-sz7kw3 жыл бұрын
  • Had to watch this when i saw the rand manipulation news

    @sarcasmpod@sarcasmpod5 ай бұрын
  • Rename this episode “how to explain something without upsetting China and without any facts whatsoever “.

    @dazedhavoc@dazedhavoc4 жыл бұрын
  • Volume music to high,ich verstehen kein einzige wort

    @marcobozzo7192@marcobozzo71925 жыл бұрын
  • *Talks about China* *Shows footage of Hong Kong instead*

    @yodaman3406@yodaman34065 жыл бұрын
    • Which is in fact part of China, but sure.

      @TurdFerguson43@TurdFerguson435 жыл бұрын
    • @@TurdFerguson43 We, the people of hk, don't really think so

      @yodaman3406@yodaman34065 жыл бұрын
    • Yoda Man We, the majority of HK people, do think so

      @henrychau2210@henrychau22105 жыл бұрын
    • He's an Indian reporter too. First bullshit alarm went off in my mind.

      @scottsummers3868@scottsummers38685 жыл бұрын
  • awkward asian barista guy going: stop not looking at me

    @maxjing61@maxjing615 жыл бұрын
  • "Reasons for currency manipulation" should be the name of the video.

    @annonymouscommentor3694@annonymouscommentor36944 жыл бұрын
  • Alright, but why does the republic of Monopoly sell muffins that are at least twice as big as their overpriced houses?

    @restless42@restless422 жыл бұрын
  • I still dont understand

    @MrMaybe-rm6bo@MrMaybe-rm6bo4 жыл бұрын
  • Please don’t put music on

    @ChineseAmerican50@ChineseAmerican504 жыл бұрын
  • I saw some Malaysian currency there

    @AceGhostification@AceGhostification4 жыл бұрын
  • He explained well in this short span of time.. I'm doing PhD in central bank intervention.

    @anjalyb6935@anjalyb69354 жыл бұрын
    • Hello how are you doing Anjaly B

      @davidwalter8821@davidwalter88213 жыл бұрын
  • I didn't understand anything 😅... did anyone?

    @parthib1@parthib14 жыл бұрын
  • 2:20 if your economy is getting stronger why would inflation be an issue? There would be know need to produce more currency since it’s purchasing power is increasing. Can someone with more knowledge explain?

    @fulaan1@fulaan14 жыл бұрын
    • global competitiveness. If they sell for less but keep the domestic prices low by self relying for domestic products. If you look at how much a Chinese makes(1.4k), it's less than half of an American (3.7k). International, an American individual is much more economically superior than a Chinese individual. But in their countries, since China is self reliant, prices are kept so low, The Chinese have a rather heavy purchasing power.

      @Blaze6432@Blaze64324 жыл бұрын
  • quanttive easing is currency manipulation. and US does it to export inflation to other nations. if you google Plaza Accord we did that to Japan to slow down the economy, for the past two decades. that's some ally to you. LOL

    @willengel2458@willengel24585 жыл бұрын
  • I understand fully

    @katlegorapelang1048@katlegorapelang10482 жыл бұрын
  • At present the trade between countries takes place in the system of Exchange Rates between the countries (Exports and Imports, prices cheaper or higher with the changes in the value of currency, )The solution is, the price of goods and services to be fixed to the date when purchases takes place , for eg the USA purchased 1 lakh worth goods on 11.5.2020 ,and paid 50 thousand rupees as initial payment the remaining 50 thousand rupees to be paid with the agreement of valid six months,in this period upto 11.11.2020 though the CHINA currency Revalued, or Devalued, the USA has to pay 50 thousand rupees only, like that trade agreement should be made between the countries , with this we can avoid trade wars, The future trade depends on the interest of the USA by accepting the changes made in CHINA currency.

    @udayasreea9705@udayasreea97054 жыл бұрын
  • okay so my question still remains unaswered, how do they manipulate it?? xD

    @jaimalhotra2337@jaimalhotra23374 жыл бұрын
  • Came here after india was put in currency manipulation watchlist.

    @goombah_ninja@goombah_ninja3 жыл бұрын
  • Did they just use Eminem's Real slim shady theme.. 0:45

    @kaushalmaurya1091@kaushalmaurya10914 жыл бұрын
  • Huh??

    @davidrabinowits3229@davidrabinowits32294 жыл бұрын
  • Safe, stable and free to use. Cheers!!!

    @godlyboy@godlyboy4 жыл бұрын
  • Nixon created 💵 printings which is not gold based but petrol based ...so US has created more 💸💸💶....now more buying power.

    @CarsSupercars@CarsSupercars6 жыл бұрын
    • whats going to happen when you cant pay the interest on the rising currently 21 trillion dollar debt anymore?

      @darkorbitpro1@darkorbitpro15 жыл бұрын
  • The music is just annoying.

    @cowidster@cowidster3 жыл бұрын
  • Pls do a video on Mukesh Ambani and his conglomerate....

    @sreehariedathil4868@sreehariedathil48683 жыл бұрын
  • Teaching the kids how to play monopoly.

    @victorchew151@victorchew1514 жыл бұрын
  • Ohh so currency manipulation is when they manipulate a currency. thanks for clearing that up CNBC, I can always rely on corporate media for in-depth explanations of important topics.

    @LetsGetSmarted@LetsGetSmarted4 жыл бұрын
  • Every country manipulates it’s currency for sustainable exchange. Drawing bill from market n selling more USD in the market are also manipulating the money

    @semarmanganov4767@semarmanganov47676 жыл бұрын
    • Exchange rates vary based on how well an economy is doing. Randomly dropping the exchange, arbitrarily, is currency manipulation.

      @MG-ok6nu@MG-ok6nu4 жыл бұрын
  • that is the explanation cnbc wants you to believe. they think youtube viewers are only usa. but it is the whole world

    @darmanhashim@darmanhashim4 жыл бұрын
  • If the dollar is up for sale, it stands to reason to buy it if it helps achieve your goals. I don’t see the difference between that and manipulating interest rates.

    @chrisjenkins9978@chrisjenkins99784 жыл бұрын
  • you mean paper money with no value.

    @darmanhashim@darmanhashim4 жыл бұрын
  • Amm... I'm still lost.

    @rockydejavo@rockydejavo4 жыл бұрын
  • Monetary expansion?

    @brunoc1198@brunoc11984 жыл бұрын
  • nice

    @eduardotito1358@eduardotito13586 жыл бұрын
  • What was worst? The explanation, music or unnecessary politics?

    @Rwpinkfloydfan@Rwpinkfloydfan4 жыл бұрын
  • I guess he fallowed through on his promise

    @jdee2095@jdee20954 жыл бұрын
  • Dollar is the worst if were just talking about currency manipulation. First they keep on printing dollars and we don't even know how much they printed, second they are planning to create one trillion coin to pay their debts so yeah.. that's one of currency manipulation.

    @darkking9800@darkking98002 жыл бұрын
    • By creating conflicts just like in Ukraine, fear and being dominant dollar is definitely strong💸💸 that's currency manipulation. making it America's Imperialism 💸💸

      @darkking9800@darkking98002 жыл бұрын
  • The goofy music downplayed the seriousness of this issue. I'm glad CNBC doesn't mind countries cheating our businesses.... thanks

    @floridaboy1700@floridaboy17005 жыл бұрын
  • US $ based on Debt…. Instead of gold. 😂

    @enriquevaldeza@enriquevaldeza6 ай бұрын
  • 2 years later, no real solutions yet.

    @paolee2730@paolee27304 жыл бұрын
  • Federal Reserve is biggest manipulator?

    @jasondong9721@jasondong97212 жыл бұрын
  • Gets!!!!

    @michaeljohncatubuan9290@michaeljohncatubuan92904 жыл бұрын
  • I felt as though this explanation was sub par.

    @Slyfox750@Slyfox7505 жыл бұрын
  • So when the currency goes down its like a tax on the middle class ...?

    @haris000000@haris0000005 жыл бұрын
    • Is tax on everybody.

      @napospapas4484@napospapas44845 жыл бұрын
  • Not a good explanaition ????

    @oliverphippen1957@oliverphippen19574 жыл бұрын
  • Currency manipulation is not a problem. Spending more than we can afford is the problem.

    @mocho849@mocho8494 жыл бұрын
  • So, in the U.S., the federal reserve is a private bank given monopoly status over U.S. currency. I disagree with this and believe anyone should be able to create their own currency and use whatever they deem best for themselves. Crytocurrency is a good start, but I think currency should be completely denationalisation and instead be just another consumer good.

    @johnc1014@johnc10144 жыл бұрын
  • In layman terms this is currency manipulation, it is when money from exports outweighs the costs of china devaluing their currency, For example, If one yuan can buy 0.15 US dollars, and China makes 1000 US dollars or 6666.67 yuan from exports originally, and China devalues its yuan by 50%, then one yuan can only buy 0.075 US dollars, and China needs to sell 13333.33 yuan or 1000 US dollars worth of products to make the same amount of money as before. However, if the demand for China’s products increases because they are cheaper, then China can sell more products for more money. For example, if China sells 16000 yuan or 1200 US dollars worth of products after the devaluation, then China makes more money than before, even though its currency is worth less. This is how currency manipulation gives China an advantage in international trade. Hope this helps

    @nlama1296@nlama12967 ай бұрын
  • Thanks for your efforts, but see the comments, maybe you need to find another job

    @luhaizhou@luhaizhou4 жыл бұрын
  • How much China manipulated CNBC to put out this friendly video

    @dejotou@dejotou5 жыл бұрын
  • thise asian girls where back there like wtf is he doing? lol Prob not smart to have cash in public.

    @joshhawn3988@joshhawn39885 жыл бұрын
  • What i just got from the video is prejudice CNBC treating to China and proud of what America has done.

    @francisfrank3571@francisfrank35714 жыл бұрын
  • so he who owns the Valuable currency is not the richest Rather the one who supplies the goods to all. After all we can't eat money.!!

    @vidhyashanker9873@vidhyashanker98735 жыл бұрын
  • A lot make news from the master of this skill, Trump

    @howetrinh4084@howetrinh40844 жыл бұрын
  • Printing money

    @andrewc3551@andrewc35513 жыл бұрын
  • Should I believe CNBC?

    @chazychaz4501@chazychaz45014 жыл бұрын
  • Fuck it i didn't understand this anyone who can make it simpler?

    @piyushdas5151@piyushdas51515 жыл бұрын
  • America biggest currency manipulator

    @trollasaur3012@trollasaur30124 жыл бұрын
  • Nine Docror Drew Pinsky

    @evieiles1329@evieiles13295 жыл бұрын
  • Too simplistic. In the case of Japan it’s the reverse: When the economy goes bad the Yen goes up (mostly)

    @zoeigarashi4271@zoeigarashi42716 жыл бұрын
    • Why does the Yen go up? Is that because investors look at it has a chance to buy some Yen dollars?

      @stephanenkeuleu2987@stephanenkeuleu29876 жыл бұрын
    • Stephane nkeuleu In the case of the Japanese Yen I think it’s an interplay between Japan’s role as an exporter and the Japanese Yen’s role as a “safe haven”. Since Japan is famous as an exporter (not really true in certain respects), a weak Yen is seen as good for exporters and hence the stock market and/or the economy as a whole. Conversely, when the Yen is strong it is seen as bad for the economy - hence the (to my mind illogical but apparently true) inverse relationship of when the Economy is bad the Yen goes stronger. This relationship was more or less true for about 1-2 decades until it was broken 4-5 years ago when Japan had both rising Yen as well as rising stock market and GDP figures. The optimism with Abenomics seem to have broken the weak economy -> strong yen relationship, making it more a conventional one. The other element is the Yen’s “safe haven” effect. For some weird reason, Japan is seen as Asia’s Switzerland i.e.the safe place/currency to park your money. When the global or regional economy goes bad, weirdly, the Yen goes up. This was weirdest whenever North Korea tests a nuclear bomb or a missile. You’d think people would want to get out of Japan and the neighborhood, but somehow the Yen rises. When oil prices raced to the bottom as Saudi Arabia ramped out oil production to snuff out the US’ shale oil producers and Iran prior to the lifting of sanctions the Yen also went up. 2017/2018 seems like it’s going to be a conventional year: the strong economy is lifting the Yen up as well. In theory this is bad for Japan’s exporters, except that the real answer is “not necessarily”. Most products that Japan exports are high value added technical stuff that can’t be supplied by other countries/companies (30-40% of the iPhone, I believe) so dollar sales won’t suffer too much although the revenues in Yen terms go down. This is bad for Japanese companies, yet not really too bad because they have been sitting on trillions of dollars of cash that they haven’t used yet so they have quite a cushion.

      @zoeigarashi4271@zoeigarashi42716 жыл бұрын
    • Stephane nkeuleu is speechless......

      @brijavpogi@brijavpogi5 жыл бұрын
  • Not clear explanation and I didn’t understand much of currency manipulation

    @rajagopaln6641@rajagopaln66414 жыл бұрын
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