AUDJPY stalls at 8300 key support
In the wake of the Fed’s rate hike, Wall Street close lower and led to a bearish session across Asian bourses. Stock market declines haven’t been too substantial for the most part as investors digest the hawkish tone of the Fed on the hand and its plainly bullish assessment of the U.S. economy on the other. In firming today, the Yen has followed its soft-seen inverse correlation with global equity market direction.
The biggest movement out of the main currencies has been AUDJPY and is showing a loss of over 0.9%. The AUDJPY is a cross which trades like a high beta asset and which has been under further pressure this morning, following a sub-forecast Australian employment report.
Ahead today, the ECB is expect to announce the end of QE, while U.S. President Trump will reportedly decide whether to proceed with tariffs on Chinese goods later on Thursday (his unabashed form this week suggests he won’t hold back). Therefore Fundamentals are likely to affect safe Haven currencies such as Yen and therefore to boost AUDJPY. The risk however, for a sustained bout of equity market turbulence suggests the pair may be heading lower over coming sessions.
As fundamentals are bullish for AUDJPY, the technical picture of the pair remain bearish in short-term. In the 4-hour chart, the strong bearish move below 20 and 50-period EMA, and outside the the lower Bollinger Band pattern, coexists with a negative signs out of intra-day momentum indicators. The RSI flattened on 30 barrier, while MACD oscillator slipped above its trigger line in the negative area, something that suggest that downside momentum is increasing. A potential crossing of 50-period EMA below 200-period EMA today, could provide another confirmation of the strong negative, in the 4-hour chart. Despite the above, the pair is currently close to a key level, at the 200-period EMA at 83.00. A break or an hourly close below this level area today, could trigger a retest of Friday’s low and the 23.6% Fibonacci level at 82.50. Support comes at 83.30.
In a wider review of AUDJPY moves in a soft uptrend since March, retesting several times resistance at 84.00. So a close today above June’s low at 82.20, could alert the continuation of the recovery uptrend in long-term.
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Having completed her five-year-long studies in the UK, Andria Pichidi has been awarded a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Bath and a MSc degree in Mathematics, while she holds a postgraduate diploma (PGdip) in
