The Finance Ministry has asked commercialbanks to moderate their dollar sales, JiJi News Agency
reported, quoting financial sources.
    Finance Ministry officials were unavailable for comment.
The report also could not be confirmed by several bank dealers.
    Earlier, Japanese trust banking sources said the Ministry
had asked them to moderate their dollar sales.
    A Ministry official said earlier this week the ministry had
recently surveyed currency transactions by investors, but
declined to say whether this aimed at reducing their dollar
sales.
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