AUDJPY: Will Price Break Above 107.8 Region?

Markets PMI business confidence was on tap at the close of the week. The European June edition comes with an important disclaimer though. PMI owner S&P Global noted that the turmoil in the wake of the European elections and the French snap elections has likely stirred up a lot of uncertainty and that France’s poor […]

USDJPY was slipping below 153 on Friday morning, a three-week low and having lost over 4.5% from a peak of 160.2 at the start of trading on Monday. Behind the pair’s rise is a long-term fundamental factor: a huge and widening interest rate differential with a shrinking trade surplus. Currency interventions of the Japanese Ministry […]

Key insights from the week that was. In Australia, the RBA Board once again left the cash rate unchanged at 4.35%. The Board’s statement emphasised that there remains considerable uncertainty around the economic outlook, particularly as it relates to policy lags, the path for consumption, and consequently inflation’s path back to target. Strong population growth […]