The currency pair shows how many Japanese yen, the quote currency, are needed to purchase one U.S. dollar, the base currency. The symbol for the Japanese yen (JPY) is ¥. USD/JPY is the ticker ...

The yen was adopted as Japan's official currency ... Sweden kept things simple by using "kr" as the currency's symbol. The original krona was worth 1/2480 kilograms of pure gold. ...

Shorting the yen is one of the most popular and successful currency bets on Wall Street and it was trading at a 34-year low in July. The reasons for its prolonged weakness are largely structural.

The U.S. dollar tumbled on Wednesday against the Korean won, Japanese yen and a handful of other Asian currencies on reports that currency policies had factored into trade talks between the U.S ...

Yen at 7-mth low vs dollar, 15-yr trough to euro * Divergence of monetary policy boosts dlr, weaken yen * Japan last intervened in October to stem yen weakness * Investors brace for intervention ...