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carry trade

British

noun

finance a speculative transaction in which a trader buys the currency of a country with a high rate of interest and sells the currency of a country with a low rate of interest

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Face it, the yen carry trade of borrowing cheap at near zero interest rates is dying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Cheap credit from the yen carry trade provided some.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

And that could trigger an unwinding of the so-called yen carry trade, in which investors borrow the Japanese currency to invest abroad.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

In a posting on X, Blokland writes that last week’s rate hike by the Bank of Japan, taking its policy rate to 0.75% and the highest since 1995, has not ended the carry trade.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 22, 2025

That triggered a sharp unwinding of the so-called carry trade in which investors borrow cheaply in yen and put the money to work in markets around the world with higher returns.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

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