ProShares UltraShort Yen

YCS

Market cap $29.8M

The dollar hit a six-week high amid Iran deal uncertainty. ETFs tied to the dollar may gain, while gold and emerging markets could struggle.

Japan stocks are rallying on the BoJ's dovish stance & Takaichi's pro-growth push. Play the trend via ETFs DXJ, DBJP, HEWJ, and YCS.

Solid growth and ongoing shareholder-friendly reforms are driving Japanese equity gains, keeping us overweight. We see the AI theme playing out globally.

Nikkei 225 broke below its 200-day moving average and a four-month range configuration. US President Trump's trade war 2.0 against major trading partners triggered a negative feedback loop in Japanese equities due to potential disruption in semiconductor supply chains.

BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ProShares announced forward and reverse share splits on 22 of its ETFs.

The “real” policy rate is massively negative, with the new policy rate of 0.25% far below Core CPI of 2.6%. When QT reaches about ¥3 trillion per month in 2026, it would represent a reduction of its JGB holdings of about 0.5% per month.

Japan has been struggling for some time to generate enough velocity in inflation to escape the gravitational pull of deflation. The story for the rest of 2024 and into 2025 is now centered on whether inflation will be sustained at the BOJ's 2% target.

A weak yen is unlikely to end the positive momentum in Japanese equities. The drivers of the recent rally remain, so we stay overweight Japanese stocks.

The Bank of Japan is set to normalise monetary policy when certain conditions are met, namely inflation, positive real cash earnings, and a recovery in domestic demand growth. We expect the window for normalisation to open from July for about a year before inflation begins to fall below 2%.

Kazuo Ueda becomes Governor of the Bank of Japan, continuing the loose monetary policies implemented by his predecessor. The BOJ raises short rates from -0.1% to 0.1%, becoming the last central bank to exit a Negative Interest Rate Policy.