USD/JPY is positioned at 158.87, reflecting a decrease of about 0.5% during the session. This decline is part of a subtle trend that has been unfolding throughout the week, overshadowed by more prominent narratives of dollar weakness, such as the EUR/USD rally to 1.1800 and the GBP/USD’s seven-day ascent to 1.3570, which have garnered significant … Read more
USD/JPY is trading within the range of 159.389-159.393, reflecting an increase of 0.06% or about 0.099 points for the session. The daily high reached 159.871, while the session low was recorded at 159.286. The pair commenced the week with a bullish gap, ascending to the 159.85 area during the Asian session. However, intervention concerns curtailed … Read more
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