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DOLLAR-YEN: USD/JPY climbed 25 pips overnight and last trades at Y107.45. "Less
dovish" Fedspeak rhetoric from the Fed supported the greenback, while JPY failed
to benefit from the Nikkei 225's decline.
- An earlier breach of the 100-HMA at Y107.34 shifts bullish focus to Y107.50,
which has been tested several times over the last couple of hours. Above opens
the cloud Tenkan Sen at Y107.75. Bears look for a pullback below the 100-HMA
before challenging the psychological Y107.00 barrier.
- MNI understands that the BoJ may extend the duration of its forward guidance
to the autumn or even the end of 2020, if Japanese economy slows (see MNI Main
Wire at 23:30 BST 06/25 for the full piece).
- Worth noting there are large option expiries with strikes at Y107.00, Y107.30,
Y107.50 and Y108.00-10 scheduled for the NY 10:00ET cut.
- Japanese highlights in terms of remaining data releases this week include
retail sales due tomorrow, as well as industrial output, unemployment and Tokyo
CPI hit on Friday. BoJ's Wakatabe speaks tomorrow, while the summary of opinions
from the latest BoJ MonPol meetings comes out on Friday.

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