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Speaker 1: Maxillen as Asia EFTs and rate Strategistic Credit Sweet joining

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Speaker 1: me in the Singapore studio. Max, Let's start with the yen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, pushing to this fresh twenty four year low.

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Speaker 1: I think overall the market sort of understands that fundamentally,

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Speaker 1: the absolute pain point here? Do you think? I'm not

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Speaker 1: Once we get to one forty, you get to one

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Speaker 1: confronted with this challenge, I do think so, and I

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