USD/JPY is currently positioned around 159.30-159.50 on Friday, nearing the significant ¥160 threshold that has become the focal point for momentum buyers, those monitoring for intervention, and the Bank of Japan’s increasingly challenging policy calculations. The pair declined to ¥158.00 earlier this week, reaching a low of 158.48 on April 9, before initiating a recovery … Read more
A head-and-shoulders pattern is forming as USD/JPY records lower highs and lows. The RSI is approaching 50, indicating an increase in bearish momentum pressure. A decline beneath 158.48 reveals support levels at 157.88 and 157.35. The USD/JPY pair experienced an increase, approaching the 20-day Simple Moving Average at 159.19 on Thursday. However, it subsequently pulled … Read more
The USD/JPY pair remains poised to challenge the critical 160-yen threshold, a level that has repeatedly acted as a major barrier. Market participants are closely monitoring this zone, along with the 160.40 level, which aligns with a historical peak from 1990. USD/JPY continues to approach this key resistance, supported by a widening interest rate differential … Read more
USD/JPY is currently positioned at 159.35-159.83 on Monday, exhibiting fluctuations throughout a session that has yielded a greater number of directional signals per hour than is typically observed in an entire week of trading. The pair reached a session low of 159.35 in the early European session before making a recovery, having opened around 159.83 … Read more
March Nonfarm Payrolls recorded 178,000 on Friday — a figure that significantly exceeded the 57,000 consensus estimate and altered the prevailing narrative regarding the fragility of the US labor market that had been developing since February’s alarming -92,000 print, which marked the most severe single-month employment decline in recent history. The unemployment rate exceeded projections. … Read more
On Thursday, April 2, 2026, USD/JPY is positioned around 159.40, following a significant surge earlier in the Asian and European sessions. However, it has since moderated its intraday gains during the American session, as the headline regarding the Iran-Oman Hormuz protocol momentarily shifted risk sentiment across all asset classes. The pair’s Thursday movement illustrates the … Read more
As of April 1, 2026, USD/JPY is positioned at 158.50, reflecting a decline of 0.14% for the session, following a dip to a one-week low of 158.27 earlier today. The pair pulled back from 160.00 — a psychological threshold that has historically prompted direct intervention by Japanese authorities — as risk sentiment strengthened following Trump’s … Read more
The USD/JPY exhibited a definitive bearish key reversal on Monday. It opened above Friday’s close, reached a new high at 160.45, and subsequently closed below Friday’s open after trading beneath Friday’s low. This pattern represents one of the clearest single-session reversal signals observable on a daily chart. By Tuesday, the pair was trading around 158.94-159.70, … Read more
The USD/JPY pair is currently at 159.70 on Monday, experiencing a significant pullback from a recent peak reached in July 2024, which was observed during the Asian session around the mid-160.00s. The recent retreat should not be interpreted as a trend reversal; rather, it represents a temporary pressure release influenced by the verbal interventions of … Read more
The USD/JPY is approaching the 160.00 mark on Friday — a significant psychological and politically sensitive level that has served as an intervention trigger for Japanese authorities several times in 2024. This threshold is once again under scrutiny, influenced by the same volatility factors that prompted earlier interventions. The pair has experienced a rally of … Read more