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Multiple market themes sent the yen into Chopsville last week. Will we see clearer directional trends with this week’s catalysts?
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Lower tier releases
- While they don’t usually affect the yen’s prices for long, domestic reports can cause intraday blips for the yen’s crosses
- Economy Watchers Survey (Aug 11, 5:00 am GMT) to yield more optimistic results in July
- Preliminary machine tool orders (y/y) (Aug 12, 6:00 am GMT) seen at -27.0% from -32.0%
- Annualized PPI (Aug 12, 11:50 pm GMT) to clock in at -1.2% after 1.6% dip
Market risk appetite
- Coronavirus-related updates (number of cases, vaccine and stimulus prospects, lockdown plans, global and domestic economic recovery outlook) will still affect the yen’s price action this week
- Top-tier releases from other major economies can cause counter currency price reactions that can push the yen in volatile intraweek trends
Technical snapshot
- Stochastic considers the yen as “oversold” against the European currencies
- JPY may soon hit “overbought” status against NZD
- USD/JPY remains in neutral territory on the daily time frame
- JPY is starting to see green shoots on its bearish trends against AUD, GBP, EUR, and CHF
- The yen remains bullish against the Loonie and the dollar
- JPY saw the most volatility against NZD, AUD, GBP, and EUR in the last seven days
Missed last week’s price action? Read JPY’s price recap for August 3 – 7!