In the Tokyo foreign exchange market on the 22nd, the trend of buying the dollar and selling the yen increased due to the view that interest rates will continue to be raised in the United States, and the yen exchange rate fell.
As of 5:00 p.m., the yen was depreciating by 96 sen from the 21st to 141.80 to 82 sen against the dollar.
Against the euro, compared to the 21st, the yen has depreciated by 1.12 yen and appreciated against the euro to 1 euro = 145.56 yen to 60 yen.
The euro was 1 euro = 1.0265 to 67 dollars against the dollar.
A market insider said, ``Recently, senior Fed officials in the United States have continued to make positive statements about monetary tightening, and in response to the spread of the new coronavirus in China, there are concerns about the future of the Chinese economy. “There is a lot of buying of the dollar,” he said.