Yen climbs for third straight session with traders on alert for intervention

Aug 3 : The yen rose for a third straight session on Monday, keeping traders on alert for further intervention after Tokyo and Washington stepped into the foreign exchange market last week to support Japan's currency.Meanwhile, oil prices sank more than $4 a barrel after U.S. President Donald Trump held back from a fre

CurrenciesRally follows US-Japan coordination; finance minister suggests more action possibleOn July 31, Japan purchased the yen "in coordination with the U.S. Department of the Treasury," Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said in a statement on Aug. 3. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Ken Suzuki, Shintaro Ino

Dollar suddenly falls against yen, traders on alert for further intervention  Reuters