Earthquake has struck in Japan near Tokyo with a magnitude of 5.3

I think that was the Yen printers turning on!

Only 5.3, sounds and feels like a Honda backfiring!

Because Yen falls and hit the ground so hard.

LOL !!!! i don't know who is stupid enough to make it sound like a chaos... 5 magnitude is common earthquake...hahaha...

With what they are planning for the Yen, nothing will bring down less than 9.0

yes, when earthquake, hit japan, yen shoots up, ha ha ha

Does any one knows actual reason for this 150 pip spike

sweeetfriend, yen is actually getting weaker... just saying.

Kartha, the BoJ terminated their asset purchasing program.

as long as its not like the tsunami of a couple years back that wrecked the jap nuke power plants and also sent western stock markets into panic mode that morning ...

My question is will this fade?

Thanks RBlackburn

You think an earthquake, in an area that experienced devestation recently, is a laughing matter?

You neglected to mention the billions yen of damage, death count and lives ruined.

Kuroda has doubled the BOJ bond purchase programme...

The BOJ will purchase 7 trillion yen ($74 billion) of bonds a month along with more risk assets, the central bank said in Tokyo.
Stocks surged and the yen weakened, signaling Kuroda is winning investors’ confidence as he targets a doubling of the monetary base over two years to revive the world’s third-biggest economy.

The central bank set a two-year horizon for achieving the price goal under a “new phase of monetary easing,” as the new governor won the support of a board mostly appointed by the previous government.

This thread, from the headline on down, is a good lesson in why one should not read (let alone act on) most of what's written on forums. Thx to the couple of people who have put the record straight. What angelic patience you have.
PK