GBP/JPY sees thin rebound on Friday, falls just short of 182.00

The GBP/JPY catches a soft bid to challenge 182.00 after a week of stubborn losses.
The Yen surged on the week, bolstered by a hawkish BoJ.
The Guppy heads into next week’s central bank showdown on the low side.

Joshua Gibson FXStreet

The GBP/JPY eked out a small gain on Friday, finishing the day up a slim tenth of a percent to cap off a trading week of firm declines. The Guppy ends the trading week down a firm two and a third percent from the week’s opening bids near 186.60, hitting a nine-week low of 178.58 amidst Thursday’s broad-market Yen rally.

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) kicked off a wild surge in the Japanese Yen after BoJ Governor Kazuo Ueda struck unusually hawkish tones in the mid-week, hinting that the BoJ could be on pace to begin tightening monetary policy, specifically highlighting the Japanese central bank’s negative rate regime.

Despite the BoJ fearing a collapse in Japanese inflation sometime in 2025, Japanese Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation continues to run hotter than expected, hitting 2.9% for the year into October and chalking in a nineteenth straight consecutive month of inflation outrunning the BoJ's 2% upper target band.

Yen traders picked up the BoJ’s hawkish tone and ran with it, sending the JPY surging across the board. The GBP/JPY tumbled nearly three and a half percent top-to-bottom on Thursday, pushing the pair down into new lows below 178.60.

Next week sees UK labor figures, followed by Japanese manufacturing figures, culminating in 2023’s last rate call from the Bank of England (BoE).

GBP/JPY Technical Outlook

The GBP/JPY’s tumble left the pair knocking into fresh multi-week lows, and Friday’s thin rebound has the Guppy rebounding from the 180.00 major handle.

Near-term momentum still leans in favor of the bulls, with technical support coming from the still-untouched 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) near 178.00, but the last swing high into 188.66 represents a significant peak that bidders will struggle to retake.

The GBP/JPY is at risk of re-entering a consolidation phase around the 50-day SMA near the 184.00 price level, and short sellers will have their work cut out for them to try and cut the recovery rally short.

GBP/JPY Hourly Chart

GBP/JPY Daily Chart

GBP/JPY Technical Levels

GBP/JPY

Overview
Today last price	181.93
Today Daily Change	0.99
Today Daily Change %	0.55
Today daily open	180.94

Trends
Daily SMA20	186.41
Daily SMA50	184.19
Daily SMA100	183.76
Daily SMA200	177.61

Levels
Previous Daily High	185.09
Previous Daily Low	178.59
Previous Weekly High	188.53
Previous Weekly Low	186.2
Previous Monthly High	188.67
Previous Monthly Low	182.75
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	181.07
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	182.61
Daily Pivot Point S1	177.99
Daily Pivot Point S2	175.04
Daily Pivot Point S3	171.49
Daily Pivot Point R1	184.49
Daily Pivot Point R2	188.04
Daily Pivot Point R3	191

Author

Joshua Gibson

FXStreet

Joshua joins the FXStreet team as an Economics and Finance double major from Vancouver Island University with twelve years' experience as an independent trader focusing on technical analysis.

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