Yen firms as Wall Street sell-off unsettles investors By Reuters
By Kevin Buckland and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – The Japanese yen firmed against the dollar on Wednesday as investors scurried to safer assets after a sharp sell-off on Wall Street in the prior session sparked by concerns about the U.S. economy and tech sector valuations. The catalyst was ostensibly some soft U.S. manufacturing data, which…