USD/JPY
Why is USD/JPY moving today?
USD/JPY is down 0.29% today as of 10:18 am ET, with the sharpest part of the fall between 9:25 am and 10:15 am ET, alongside a drop in the 10-year Treasury yield.
- The 10-year Treasury yield fell 5.0 bp, a move that came alongside the drop and fits how the pair usually tracks the US-Japan yield gap.US 10-year Treasury yield →
- US Unemployment Claims was scheduled for 8:30 am ET, before the sharpest part of the fall, but our data does not include the actual figure.Economic calendar →
USD/JPY is in the lower half of its 52-week range of 153.53 to 163.87.
Updated 10:20 am ET · Automatically generated from market data and MacroInsight reporting, then checked against our standards. How this works
Price
Key statistics Support & resistance →
- Previous close
- 158.49
- Day range
- 157.69 – 158.53
- 52-week range
- 153.53 – 163.87
- 1 week
- +0.08%
- 1 month
- −0.24%
- 3 months
- +1.23%
- Year to date
- +1.69%
- 1 year
- +1.69%
- 50-day average
- 157.78
- 200-day average
- 159.07
- Volatility (20d, ann.)
- 4%
- Typical daily move
- 0.6%
Analysis
USD/JPY is at 157.72, down 0.5% today.
It is down 0.2% over the past month, up 1.7% so far this year and up 1.7% over 12 months.
It sits in the lower half of its 52-week range of 153.53 to 163.87, 3.8% below the high.
The price is below its 200-day average (159.07) and the 50-day average (157.78) is below the 200-day, a pattern usually read as an established downtrend.
Volatility over the past 20 sessions is 4% annualised, in line with the past year.
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USD/JPY is the number of Japanese yen per US dollar. It is highly sensitive to the gap between US and Japanese interest rates.