Oil slides on Mideast respite, yen down as Japan govt loses majority
Brent crude futures were 4.2% lower and traded as cheaply as $67.80 a barrel after Israel's response to an Iranian missile attack focused, so far, on missile factories and other sites near Tehran and not on disrupting energy supplies.
In Japan, the LDP which has ruled for most of the post-war years and junior coalition partner Komeito won 215 lower-house seats at Sunday's election, public broadcaster NHK reported. This falls well short of the 233 needed for a majority and the yen was squeezed since investors figured any government that emerges is likely to make a dovish shift in economic policies.
«The markets are likely to think this means more trouble for the yen with 155 the first target and (the finance ministry's) line in the sand at 160,» said Bob Savage, head of markets strategy and insights at BNY in a note.
Gains in the stock market, which often moves in the opposite direction to the yen as a weaker currency can help exporters, were led by technology companies.
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