Foreign exchange: Dollar around 148 yen, consecutive hurricanes in the USA, caution about employment indicators being disrupted.

Dollar around 148 yen, consecutive hurricanes in the USA, caution about employment indicators being disrupted.
Trading in dollars has been crossing back and forth between the mid-148 yen range and the latter half. There were moments when selling, thought to be actual demand, temporarily intensified at the mid-price, but quickly reversed after public announcement.
In the market, there are voices pointing out the possibility that temporary factors influenced the increase in the number of initial jobless claims in the USA, which caused the dollar to fluctuate up and down in overseas markets the day before, attributing it to the rapid increase caused by Hurricane 'Helene' hitting the southeastern United States (Barclays).