AUD/JPY Exchange rate

AUD/USD stays better bid, keeping its range above 0.6200 early Friday. The Aussie fails to capitalize on stronger-than-expected China's Q4 GDP data and the December Retail Sales and Industrial Production data. The RBA's dovish shift and looming Trump's tariff plans might cap the pair's upside.  

USD/JPY edges higher on Friday and recovers a part of the previous day's heavy losses to the 155.00 neighborhood, or a nearly one-month low. The upside seems limited amid the divergent BoJ-Fed expectations.

Gold price consolidates during the Asian session on Friday as traders take a brief pause following the recent move up to over a one-month peak touched the previous day. The bias, meanwhile, seems tilted in favor of bulls amid growing acceptance that the Fed will cut rates twice this year. 

BNB price crossed the $715 on Thursday as traders continued to take strategic speculative positions ahead of the US Presidential inauguration slated for January 20. Recent reports show Binance emerged market leader as Trump’s re-election drove crypto trading volumes to record highs in December 2024. 

The slight 0.2% rise in production from October is insufficient to indicate a reversal of the two-year downward trend. Overall, the outlook for industry remains quite weak at the start of the year.