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USD/JPY FUNDAMENTAL BACKDROP
USD/JPY Printed a contemporary YTD excessive across the 137.900 deal with earlier than retreating 100 pips to slide under the 137.00 mark. Positive aspects have been capped regardless of optimistic ADP knowledge out of the US with the pair remaining in overbought territory.
The hawkish rhetoric by Fed Chair Powell had helped facilitate a break of the 137.00 deal with after 7 days of consolidation between the 135.00-137.00 vary. Additional feedback at the moment from Fed policymaker Ellen Barkin who said that the Fed nonetheless has work to do as inflation stays uncomfortably excessive. Fed Chair Powell continued his testimony at the moment the place he appeared barely much less hawkish stating that financial coverage results could also be lagging and slowing the tempo of charge hikes this 12 months is a solution to gauge the results of lags extra clearly.
Wanting forward financial coverage divergence might come into play on USDJPY which might favor additional upside for the pair. The BoJ is anticipated to take care of its simple financial coverage stance with incoming Financial institution of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda solely final week confirming his intention to proceed with “Abenomics”. Ueda harassed that the Japanese economic system stays fragile with wage progress but to succeed in acceptable ranges. Taking the above into consideration additional beneficial properties for USDJPY can’t be dominated and look more and more probably.
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Powell confirmed that the Fed will make selections primarily based on knowledge whereas stating that no determination has been made in regard to the upcoming March Assembly. Friday’s NFP print guarantees to be key because the Fed weighs a 50bps hike with the Fed starting its blackout interval on Saturday. In a single day we’ve got the GDP progress charge out of Japan adopted by PPI knowledge on Thursday and the BoJ charge determination Friday morning.
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TECHNICAL OUTLOOK
From a technical perspective, USD/JPY has been on an upward trajectory for the reason that center of January, breaking the descending trendline. The pair appeared to have discovered a powerful resistance are across the 137.00 mark in current instances as we spent round 7 days probing the extent and threatening a break increased.
Having now damaged increased we’re caught between the 100 and 200-day MA. The technical are giving blended alerts and don’t appear to be on the identical web page as the basics at this stage.
We have now the 200-day MA offering resistance, along with a golden cross formation and naturally the RSI which is at present in overbought territory. Given the entire technicals pointing to some type of retracement I do assume any such transfer could also be quick lived and could possibly be a retest of the ascending trendline (136.00) which is now in play earlier than we do push on and proceed increased towards 138.20 and doubtlessly the 140.00 psychological stage.
USD/JPY Day by day Chart – March 8, 2022
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Written by: Zain Vawda, Markets Author for DailyFX.com
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