By Kevin Buckland
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese officials may have spent some 3.66 trillion yen ($23.59 billion) on Wednesday in the latest attempt to pull the yen back from near 34-year lows, Bank of Japan data showed on Thursday.
Japan’s Ministry of Finance may have spent around 6 trillion yen intervening in the market on Monday to prop up the Japanese currency after it dropped to 160.245 per dollar for the first time since April 1990, the data showed.
On Wednesday, the yen was trading at around 157.55 per dollar when it suddenly spiked, strengthening as far as 153 over the following half hour.
The Ministry of Finance…
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