The central bank torch will pass to the Bank of Japan next week. Even though the consensus is for no policy changes, the prospects for the yen have started to improve heading into a potentially stormy year.

0:00 Intro
0:17 Bank of Japan
2:10 Yen
3:27 US Data
4:16 Federal Reserve
4:51 US Dollar

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