FxWirePro: Yen appreciates in early hours after BoJ minutes, faces strong support at 103.54
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 1:17 AM UTC
- USD/JPY is currently trading around 103.82 marks.
- It made intraday high at 104.00 and low at 103.58 levels.
- Intraday bias remains bearish for the moment.
- Today Japan released monetary policy meeting minutes for the month of April.
- BoJ minutes showed that underlying inflation trend has been improving steadily as QQE and negative rates impact would steadily spread to economy and prices.
- BoJ minutes – Policy members agreed that turbulence in global markets means it could take more time to see monetary policy benefits.
- A sustained close below 103.54 will drag the parity down towards key supports at 102.10 and 101.56 levels respectively.
- Alternatively, a daily close above 105.19 is required to take the parity higher towards key resistances around 106.12, 107.90, 110.44, 112.60 (55D EMA) and 113.42 levels respectively.
- Important to note here that, 20D, 30D and 55D EMA heads down and confirms bearish trend in a daily chart.