A more hawkish Fed - what to expect from the minutes?
USDJPY:
Yen is getting destroyed as a culmination of factors work against the Asian currency. The US 10-year yield which it shares a very close correlation with has been increasing aggressively with a circa 12bps move yesterday and this has followed through today with a smaller but still circa 4bps move higher. This hurts the yen. Lastly, risk-on removes the demand for a safe haven currency like the yen and leads to capital flowing to higher beta assets. (Source: TradingView - Past performance is not indicative of future performance.)The 116 resistance level has been breached and most likely triggered some stops as it sliced through this key level. Also, broke above its upper trend line of the ascending channel. The RSI is in overbought territory so we could see a minor pullback to the 116 round number before the next journey of travel. Price is also quite substantially above its 50-day SMA. Potentially some mean reversion? But the upside momentum is strong. Targets wise 116.5 and 117 on the upside would be interesting, on the downside 116 and the former range high of 115.5.Gold:
Gold is clearly on the backfoot with the increasing interest rate theme. Real yields have also moved higher which leads to the opportunity cost of gold rising and hence outflows. Price is now right on the key $1800 support level, which could be breached should the Fed minutes be received hawkishly by the market. The RSI was rejected at the 62 mark and is now around the 50 area. Gold has basically been in a range between $1750 and $1830. With all the moving averages bunched up like this, they aren't of much informational value.(Source: TradingView - Past performance is not indicative of future performance.)The material provided here has not been prepared in accordance with legal requirements designed to promote the independence of investment research and as such is considered to be a marketing communication. Whilst it is not subject to any prohibition on dealing ahead of the dissemination of investment research we will not seek to take any advantage before providing it to our clients.
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