The yen would presumably jump on safe-haven demand in response to a UK vote to leave the EU, but we would still expect the Japanese currency to end the year much weaker against the dollar. Indeed, even after a vote for Brexit, the yen could soon be dragged down again by FX intervention and by the announcement of additional quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) from the Bank of Japan.
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