As confidence returns to global markets, investors appear to be using the cheap yen once again to fund investments in risky assets – a trade that is likely to give the battered Japanese currency another boot lower in the months ahead, analysts said. The yen has lost 13 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar in the past three months, hitting a 2-1/2 year low on Monday on expectations of aggressive monetary policy from Japan, which under a new government is set on ending years of deflation and pushing its economy out of recession. This backdrop coincides with a sentiment shift in financial markets, with investors ... (full story)