The yen is depreciating despite Bank of Japan interventions. Photo: Asia Times Files / AFP

TOKYO – A plunging yen is the global financial system’s version of “Groundhog Day.” Since 1993 – when the beloved Bill Murray film featuring a weatherman stuck in a time loop of the worst day of his life until he changes course hit theaters – currency traders have repeatedly had to obsess over whether the […]

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