EUR/JPY bears are lurking, eye a test to the 129.50s
|- EUR/JPY bears are testing below dynamic hourly support, greenback battles on and the euro goes soft.
- Bears will seek to target the 129.50s as a familiar support zone.
At the time of writing, in printing the low of the day of 129.62 so far, EUR/JPY is trading on the offer at 129.76, below the highs of the day at 129.82
The cross is under pressure following a weak performance on Wall Street due to softer than expected US manufacturing data and lingering supply constraints that added some caution.
The US July manufacturing ISM dipped to 59.5 (exp: 61.0, prev: 60.6). While disappointing, and possibly reflecting supply chain difficulties, there were still positives to take away.
The data sank US rates and real yields moved to a record low, both of which hurt the greenback.
As a consequence, the cross was left trading in consolidation within a sideways daily range between 129.60 and 130.42.
EUR/JPY technical analysis
Meanwhile, Asia is pretty static thus far but there has been a recent breach of dynamic support on the hourly time frame as follows:
From a 15-min perspective, the price action is bearish as the moving averages cross over to the downside, acting as resistance:
However, the bears are not out of the woods yet until a clean break of 129.70 occurs.
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