ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: USD/JPY fell back under 140.80

  • Forex news for Asian trading on Friday, September 13, 2024

There was a sharp surge in pricing for a 50bp Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) rate cut at next week’s meeting during the time zone here today. This helped to lower the US dollar. EUR/USD rose above 1.1090. Gold rose to a record high above US$2,570.

USD/JPY was where the main action was though, dropping back towards the lows of earlier this week. We didn’t have data or news out of Japan.

News and data flow was light otherwise. I did post on Russia’s Putin warning the UK and US that they will be at war with Russia if they allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike targets across the border. Also, a former New York Federal Reserve President, Bill Dudley, said he sees a strong case for a 50bp FOMC rate cut at the September 18 meeting. Dudley had previously called for a cut at the July meeting.

Coming up over the weekend we have key economic data published in China, see bullets above for more on this.

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