{"id":438134,"date":"2026-09-16T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/bessent-for-a-nominal-amount-the-us-treasury-was-able-to-signal-support-for-japanese-policies-438134\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:00:10","slug":"bessent-for-a-nominal-amount-the-us-treasury-was-able-to-signal-support-for-japanese-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/bessent-for-a-nominal-amount-the-us-treasury-was-able-to-signal-support-for-japanese-policies-438134\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent: For a nominal amount, the US Treasury was able to signal support for Japanese policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I take this comment from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as a bullish one for USD\/JPY, all else equal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He leaked the above photo, which was obviously staged, and has been talking curiously tough in what&#8217;s looking more like a jawboning effort than a real credible push. Now we have him talking about only a &#8216;nominal&#8217; amount ($5-10 billion show there) and &#8216;signal support&#8217; rather than a real campaign.This is the equivalent of the US sending armed rebels rifles and ammo rather than putting troops on the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>USD\/JPY is up 75 pips today to 155.09, which is a nine-day high.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take this comment from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as a bullish one for USD\/JPY, all else equal.\u00a0 He leaked the above photo, which was obviously staged, and has been talking curiously&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}