Japan’s finance chief helped draw a line — for now —  underneath the quickly unraveling yen with feedback Friday that indicated the federal government is maintaining an in depth eye on foreign-exchange markets.

The forex reversed its earlier declines in opposition to the dollar after Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki stated sudden strikes within the yen are usually not fascinating and that strikes within the FX market have to be carefully monitored. The yen moved to be little modified on the day at round 140.20, after earlier weakening to 140.80, a degree unseen in near 1 / 4 of a century.