USD/JPY at risk of collapse – while calling a top on the massive 1,400 pip rally has been hard, this cannot go forever. The BoJ is alone among developed world central banks in promoting a loose monetary policy. Defending a 10-year yield of 0.25% could prove impossible. Could the yen surge? 

Is the bond market forcing the Fed's hand to hike faster? That's not really what's happening. Rather, the Fed does what it wants 100% of the time and will make excuses to get what it wants. If anything is forcing the Fed it's inflation, but inflation marched higher for over a year with the market barely moving at all. 

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The EUR/USD pair finally left its consolidative phase, breaking lower and falling to a multi-year low of 1.0348. It closed the week a handful of pips above the level, with sellers now adding shorts on spikes beyond the 1.0400 figure.

The pound battering continued for the fourth straight week, as bears refused to give up. GBP/USD lost more than 200 pips to hit a new two-year low at 1.2157, breaking through several critical support levels. 

The two-month run in the USD/JPY has stalled as falling Treasury yields undermined the pair’s most potent logic, while slowing growth in China, equity turmoil and the anticipated drag of Fed rate increases on the US economy brought a modest revival to the yen safety trade. 

The AUD/USD pair kept falling in the last few days, reaching a fresh multi-week low of 0.7263 on Friday, to close the trading week a handful of pips above it. 

Bitcoin price shows interesting setups from multiple time frames that hint at a confluence. This convergence occurs for the short-term bullish outlook as well as the macro bearish scenario for BTC. 

Gold recovered after dropping below $1,800 on Friday but ended up losing more than 3% on a weekly basis, registering its second-largest one-week drop of the year.