Monday, July 2, 2007

Tokyo Housewives Moderate Currency Swings, Bank of Japan's Nishimura Says

(Bloomberg) -- Japanese housewives are helping to
moderate currency swings by betting against professional
investors, Bank of Japan board member Kiyohiko Nishimura said.

``The arrival of Japanese households as major investors
seems to have affected foreign-exchange markets,'' Nishimura, 54,
said in a speech at a meeting at the Brookings Institute in
Washington yesterday. ``The gnomes of Zurich were accused in
their day of destabilizing markets. The housewives of Tokyo are
apparently acting to stabilize them.''


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