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G7 reaffirms warning against excess currency volatility in nod to Japan
Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced nations on Saturday reaffirmed their commitment to warn against excessively volatile currency moves, language Japan sees as a green light to intervene in the market to arrest rapid falls in the yen. The agreement followed new verbal warnings from Japan's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda, who told reporters on Friday that Tokyo was ready to step into the market "any time" to counter speculative yen moves that hurt the economy. "We reaffirm our May 2017 exchange rate commitments," the G7 ministers said in a statement on Saturday after their meeting in Stresa, ... (full story)