USD/JPY — JPY=X
157.40 JPY -2.78 vs prior
Yahoo Finance chart API (JPY=X) · as of 2026-08-01. Interim Yahoo chart — not an official FX vendor feed.
Money · Yen carry
Yen carry
Is yen funding still easy, or is the rate backdrop tightening?
Yen carry is borrowing in cheap yen to earn higher yields elsewhere. Watch USD/JPY (is the yen still weak?), the US curve (destination yields), and the US−Japan gap (more gap → more room for the trade). Sharp yen strength or a shrinking gap is the stress tell.
US Treasury curve
FRED public CSV · as of 2026-07-30 · daily
Free FRED daily prints — the “earn side” rates for USD carry. 2Y tracks the Fed path; 10Y/20Y/30Y show the long end.
Japan yield & carry gap
Free FRED · Japan is monthly (lags the daily US curve)
Japan’s free official long-rate prints once a month, not every day like US Treasuries — so June can sit next to late-July US yields (source lag, not a stale cache). The derived panel is just US 10Y minus Japan. Wider gap ≈ more room for yen-funded carry; narrower ≈ less.
Japan long-term yield · monthly
2.670 %
Funding-side rate proxy — OECD/FRED long-term, not a same-day JGB 10Y.
IRLTLT01JPM156N · as of 2026-06-01 (monthly print)
US 10Y − Japan long-term · derived
2.01 pts
Math: US 10Y minus Japan long-term (4.68 − 2.670 = 2.01).
Not a FRED series — computed on this page from DGS10 − IRLTLT01JPM156N · newest leg as of 2026-07-30
On X
Official profiles · open on X (no in-page embed)
Free X timeline embeds rate-limit too often to trust on a notebook page — so these are direct profile links. For desk announcements on-site, use Press releases below.
Press releases
Free official RSS · Fed + BoJ · as of 2026-07-31
Website announcements (not tweets) — linked so you can open the full release.
Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize its rule governing the extension of credit to bank "insiders"—bank executives, board members and major shareholders who could potentially influence a bank's lending decisions
- Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize rules for mutual banking organizations
- Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with Iuka Bancshares, Inc. and The Iuka State Bank
- Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Regions Bank and former employee of First Interstate Bank
Bank of Japan
- Quarterly Schedule of Outright Purchases of Japanese Government Bonds (Competitive Auction Method) (July-September 2026) (Schedule Updates)
- Timetable and Schedule of U.S. Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations (August-December 2026)
- Statement on Monetary Policy
- Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices (July 2026, The Bank's View)