Japan steps into currency market

TOKYO, Japan - An electronic signboard in Tokyo shows the U.S. dollar trading at the 84 yen level, after Japan's monetary authorities intervened in the foreign exchange market in a bid to stem the yen's appreciation against the U.S. dollar, on Sept. 15, 2010. The dollar traded at the upper 82 yen level at one point earlier the same day before the intervention.

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