Crypto.com CEO: Bitcoin is an asset you want to hold for decades, not days or weeks

Bessent stated, "When we intervene in the yen, I know exactly what the Japanese, the Bank of Japan, and Japanese policymakers are going to do." With fundamental support from the Bank of Japan's expected 25 basis point rate hike this month, short-sellers will face the dual pressure of policy intervention and an interest rate shift. Analysts believe that Bessent's tough rhetoric serves both as psychological pressure and as an indication that further actions are being prepared.