DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR: Stocks in Tokyo managed to eke out a small gain. For a check on the Asian markets, we go live to Dalton Tanonaka who is in Hong Kong. Hi.</s>MARCHINI: Dalton, before you go, we watched the Japanese yen slide now for a few sessions in a row. It seems to have stabilized at about 127-and-a-half -- about 125-and-a-half to the dollar, let me not get people too excited there. What's going on?</s>TANONAKA: Yes. Well, basically the financial leaders are leaving their policy -- their foreign exchange policy unchanged. The top financial diplomat, Haruhiko Koroda (ph), again saying that the currency exchange rate should reflect fundamentals. So basically they're letting it see where it settles. One other explanation, Deb, of why the yen weakened a little bit. The Ministry of Finance said that they bought less yen in foreign bond issues for foreign bonds in June compared to almost double the total in May. That's what they're pinpointing as the reason for that weakening of the yen, Deb, so far. Back to you.</s>MARCHINI: All right. Thanks, Dalton -- Dalton Tanonaka in our Hong Kong Bureau. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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