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Weak yen raises risk of contagion across global stock markets

The article links the yen’s weakness to broader international capital flow instability, warning it could spill over into the real economy.

SCMP Economy writes that international capital flows remain “footloose and fancy free,” even as the world grows more divided into rival camps and competing trade blocs.

It argues that this dynamic threatens stability in the real economy, highlighting the influence of a weak Japanese yen on global stock prices as an example of potential contagion.

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