Past financial-market wobbles have been associated with periods when the carry trade was unwound.
Perhaps the overall carry trade is weakening, but not with the euro as a currency to purchase, yet.
But the carry trade turns this logic upside down by causing the yen to fall, not rise.
Other investors have also taken advantage of the“ carry trade”, enabling them to borrow at low interest rates in yen and reinvest at higher rates overseas.
The fall was triggered by the sell-off in the China A-share market, the reversal of Yen carry trade as well as a rebound in the emerging markets credit spread.
Nobody really knows how big the carry trade is.
The yen has been pushed down in recent months by the highly profitable "carry trade".
But many of these strategies were variants of the carry trade, which changed the face of the finance sector.
Then the currency engaged in carry trade most was Yen for its interest rate was very low. And many carry trade's targets were Australia dollar and New Zealand dollar.
That in turn implies the end of the "yen carry trade" – in which investors borrowed in yen and parked in higher-yielding currencies.
This “carry trade” created high returns with low volatility.
The maneuver is broadly known as a 'carry trade, ' or borrowing funds at exceedingly low rates and investing them to earn higher rates of return (or 'carry').
Under this environment carry trades should perform well, and despite a positive interest rate differential of only 1% in favor of the Eurozone, EUR/CHF is the prototypical carry trade.
By then since the interest rate of yen was very low, it was the major currency for carry trade. Generally yen is converted into other currencies such as Australian dollar and New Zealand dollar.
So this should give support touncovered-interest parity and deter the carry trade.
Exceptionally low global financial-market volatility in the middle of the decade helped spur the famous yen carry trade.
The fire sale of T-bills will paralyze the repo market, drive up the sweeping borrowing costs, suck dry the liquidity and close up the spread in the carry trade.
This paradox is the result of the “carry trade”, a popular currency strategy that partly explains why trade flows are now dwarfed by cross-border capital flows.
The most popular explanation of the yen's languor is a revival of the “carry trade” (ie, borrowing in cheap yen to buy higher-yielding investments elsewhere).
What worries me from the current industry perspective was that the end investor was probably overweight in the carry trade.
Changes in JPY carry trade and outlook for JPY value;
But why does the carry trade work?
Impact of carry trade on global financial markets and the Yen;
Such investors were taking advantage of the "carry trade", borrowing at low rates to invest in higher-yielding but riskier assets.
The “carry trade”, the borrowing of low-yielding currencies to buy higher-yielders, is back in full swing; the Australian and New Zealand dollars have been surging.
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