New Japan finance minister backtracks on yen after PM rebuke

2010/01/08 02:48:17 @Reuters: World News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's new finance minister backed off his call for a weaker yen following an apparent rebuke from the prime minister on Friday, saying currency levels should be determined by markets. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_gsoovN4rmU:jw8ym0DFZ0Y:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_gsoovN4rmU:jw8ym0DFZ0Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_gsoovN4rmU:jw8ym0DFZ0Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=_gsoovN4rmU:jw8ym0DFZ0Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=_gsoovN4rmU:jw8ym0DFZ0Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/_gsoovN4rmU" height="1" width="1"/
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