USDJPY
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USDJPY is the ticker symbol in Global FX markets that represents how many Japanese Yen you can buy with one US dollar. USDJPY is one of the world’s major currency pairs according to the Bank for International Settlements and represents 17% percent of total daily volume on forex trading markets. The factors that affect the value of the pair are the economic policy by the Japanese and U.S. governments and central banks, but also economic conditions and other economic indicators like unemployment, imports, exports, etc. However, a key driver is risk sentiment and there is a good negative correlation between stock markets and the Japanese Yen in the short term. The JPY is sensitive to risk sentiment as it is a so-called funding currency. The pair is very popular among traders because of the high liquidity and tight spreads.
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The latest CFTC Commitment of Traders Report shows that the net long positions on the USD fell moderately last week; the first weekly fall since mid-June. The highlights of the report for the week ended on August 13 are presented below. Safe haven demand that has pervaded the markets [...]
The Japanese Yen fell against the US Dollar and Asian stocks gained broadly as expectations for renewed stimulus packages from central banks and policy makers caused a brief return of risk sentiment in the markets. Having hit a low of $105.05 in last week’s trading, the USDJPY is presently up [...]
The US Retail Sales and Philly Fed Manufacturing Index data came out better than the market expected for the month of July. While the Retail Sales figure was registered at 0.7% as against the 0.3% that the market was expecting, the Core Retails Sales figure (i.e. retail sales ex-auto sales) [...]
The risk-on sentiment which hit the market after the agreement in principle to postpone the tariff regime on electronic components from China seems to have worn off Thursday as China has accused the US of reneging on the agreement with a new 10% tariff. Gold is starting to receive safe-haven [...]
According to reports monitored from the Chinese news agency Xinhua, a high-powered conference call has taken place between the Chinese Vice Premier Liu, PBOC Governor Yi Gang and Commerce Minister Zhong Shan on one hand, and US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin as well as Trade Representative Lighthizer on the other. Xinhua [...]
The US Core Consumer Price Index (CPI ex food and energy) for the month of July registered at 0.3%, which was higher than the market estimate of 0.2% and matched the result for the month of June 2019. The main CPI number which factors in food and energy products in [...]
USDJPY trades 0.04% lower at 105.24 close to 16 month lows having hit the daily low at 105.11. Japan July preliminary machine tool orders came in at -33.0% (y/y) versus -37.9% previous reading. Risk off sentiment drives the pair as investors turn to safe haven assets such as yen and [...]
The latest Commitment of Traders (COT) report from the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has been released. According to this CFTC Positioning report for the week which ended on August 6, speculative short positions on the British Pound have continued to increase. As a result, net shorts on the [...]
