Reuters posted this Thursday on the yen slump.

• But this week’s almost 3% drop, without any particular trigger, was enough for some funds to call time on the first leg of their wager that Japan would have to quit its policy of capping bond yields as its global peers push rates higher.
• “We think we are getting close to an inflection point of policy,” said BlueBay Asset Management chief investment officer Mark Dowding, especially as inflation starts to pick up.
• “We’re not shorting the yen anymore and we’re not long,” said Akshay Kamboj, co-chief investment officer at hedge fund Crawford Ventures.