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Economist Carl Weinberg warned that Japan's widening trade deficit could push the yen into excess supply and trigger a downward spiral. He compared the risk to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, though he did not predict that outcome.
A sustained yen slide would make dollar-priced feed imports more expensive for Japan, but the warning is an analyst view rather than a new policy or market event.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.