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FOREX: Yen Marginally Higher As Ueda Speaks, Steady Trends Elsewhere

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G10 FX trends have been quite muted in the first part of Wednesday trade. The USD BBDXY index was last near 1314 little changed for the session. 

  • Aggregate G10 moves are not much beyond 0.10% at this stage, as the market awaits the key US CPI release later.
  • USD/JPY is marginally lower, but is close to 157.70/75 in latest dealings. Headlines from BoJ Governor Ueda have crossed, reiterating that a decision on whether to raise rates will be made next week (so largely echoing Deputy Governor Himino's remarks from yesterday). Yen moved slightly firmer as Ueda spoke, presumably due to the fact he didn't pushback on Himino's remarks.
  • US yields sit modestly lower, the 10yr back under 4.78%. Regional equity sentiment is mixed, while US futures are close to flat at this stage.
  • EUR/USD is back under 1.0300 marginally. Headlines from ECB's Lane have crossed (speaking in HK). Economic growth is expected to recover further and if inflation stabilizes around 2% rates will go to neutral. 3% policy is not the lower bound Lane added (per BBG). FX sentiment hasn't shifted though.
  • AUD/USD was weaker in earlier trade, but at 0.6190/95 has recovered some ground.
  • NZD/USD is back around 0.5605/10, but short of Tuesday intra-session highs. We have seen another sharp rise in onshore NZGB yields today. Earlier data from the Westpac/McDermott Miller employment confidence index highlighted: "Employment confidence picked up by 2.4 points to 91.6 in the December quarter, led by an improvement in perceptions of job availability."
  • Looking ahead, ahead of the US CPI print, we get UK inflation data. 
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G10 FX trends have been quite muted in the first part of Wednesday trade. The USD BBDXY index was last near 1314 little changed for the session. 

  • Aggregate G10 moves are not much beyond 0.10% at this stage, as the market awaits the key US CPI release later.
  • USD/JPY is marginally lower, but is close to 157.70/75 in latest dealings. Headlines from BoJ Governor Ueda have crossed, reiterating that a decision on whether to raise rates will be made next week (so largely echoing Deputy Governor Himino's remarks from yesterday). Yen moved slightly firmer as Ueda spoke, presumably due to the fact he didn't pushback on Himino's remarks.
  • US yields sit modestly lower, the 10yr back under 4.78%. Regional equity sentiment is mixed, while US futures are close to flat at this stage.
  • EUR/USD is back under 1.0300 marginally. Headlines from ECB's Lane have crossed (speaking in HK). Economic growth is expected to recover further and if inflation stabilizes around 2% rates will go to neutral. 3% policy is not the lower bound Lane added (per BBG). FX sentiment hasn't shifted though.
  • AUD/USD was weaker in earlier trade, but at 0.6190/95 has recovered some ground.
  • NZD/USD is back around 0.5605/10, but short of Tuesday intra-session highs. We have seen another sharp rise in onshore NZGB yields today. Earlier data from the Westpac/McDermott Miller employment confidence index highlighted: "Employment confidence picked up by 2.4 points to 91.6 in the December quarter, led by an improvement in perceptions of job availability."
  • Looking ahead, ahead of the US CPI print, we get UK inflation data.