The persistent strength of the Japanese currency despite last month’s announcement of an unimpressive fiscal plan has led us to scale back our expectations for a sharp sell-off in the second half of the year. Nonetheless, we still think the yen is increasingly vulnerable to a fiscal shock. This might take the form of an economic slowdown prompted by policy tightening, or a crisis of market confidence in the sustainability of the public finances triggered by a ratings downgrade.
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