On the 14th of the week, the foreign exchange market and the yen exchange rate temporarily dropped to the 117.50 yen level per dollar due to early morning transactions, renewing the yen's depreciation level for the first time in about 5 years and 2 months.
Yen selling and dollar buying are intensifying against the backdrop of rising long-term interest rates due to concerns over record inflation in the United States, and the movement to buy dollars, which are said to be "strong in an emergency" in the situation in Ukraine, overlaps. Because it is.