Yen Firms Up after Strong PPI, Dollar Staying Pressured

Action Insight Daily Report 1-16-23

Yen Firms Up after Strong PPI, Dollar Staying Pressured

Yen firms up against Dollar in Asian session today, after PPI report adds more bullets for BoJ to start tweaking monetary policy. Investors in Japan are also feeling the risk of stimulus exit, and push Nikkei down more than -1%. Nevertheless, Yen is overall mixed for now. Aussie and Kiwi are so far the firmer ones. Dollar is the weakest, extending last week's decline while European majors are slightly on the soft side too.

Technically, Swiss Franc is clearly lagging behind others in the rally again the greenback. USD/CHF has indeed failed to break out from range last week. A focus for this week would indeed be on whether USD/CHF would break through 0.9407 resistance to signal short term bottoming. If Dollar is going to rebound, Swissy is currently an easier target.

In Asia, at the time of writing, Nikkei is down -1.16%. Hong Kong HSI is up 0.73%. China Shanghai SSE is up 1.44%. Singapore Strait Times is down -0.19%. Japan 10-year JGB yield is up 0.0005 at 0.512.

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USD/JPY Daily Outlook

Daily Pivots: (S1) 127.07; (P) 128.25; (R1) 129.04; More...

Intraday bias in USD/JPY remains on the downside at this point. Current fall from 1.151.93 in progress for 61.8% projection of 151.93 to 133.61 from 138.16 at 126.83. Break there will target 121.43 fibonacci level next. On the upside, above 129.3 minor resistance will turn intraday bias neutral first. But outlook will remain bearish as long as 134.76 resistance holds.

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GMT Ccy Events Actual Forecast Previous Revised
23:50 JPY PPI Y/Y Dec 10.20% 9.50% 9.30% 9.70%
00:00 AUD TD Securities Inflation M/M Dec 0.20% 1.00%
06:00 JPY Machine Tool Orders Y/Y Dec P -7.70%
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