USDJPY Begins a Healing Process

BoJ to make rate announcement on Tuesday Fed’s Williams says no rate cuts planned The Japanese yen is lower at the start of the week. In the European session, USD/JPY is trading at 142.77, up 0.44%. The yen continues to power higher and surged 1.9% last week. It marked a fifth straight winning week for […]

The Australian dollar has momentarily halted its downward trajectory against the US dollar, stabilizing around the 0.6565 mark. With a lack of significant domestic data from Australia, the AUD’s movements are largely influenced by the performance of the Chinese yuan and economic developments from China. Recently, the offshore yuan weakened to its lowest in a […]

Summary We do not expect the FOMC to change the federal funds rate or alter its current pace of balance sheet runoff at its upcoming meeting on March 19-20. Since the Committee last met, the U.S. inflation data have come in a bit stronger than expected, while the labor market generally has remained resilient. With […]