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Chart alert: USD/JPY plunging below 158 on suspected intervention, watch 157.50 support

Chart alert: USD/JPY plunging below 158 on suspected intervention, watch 157.50 support

Key takeaways Suspected FX intervention jolts USD/JPY: After briefly spiking above 159 following BoJ comments, USD/JPY plunged nearly 200 pips within minutes to ~157.30 with no data catalyst, strongly suggesting intervention or rate-checking by Japanese authorities. Momentum signals warn of a trend shift: A bearish RSI divergence on the daily chart flags rising risk of […]

Hungary’s Gross Wages See Slight Uptick in No…

Hungary’s Gross Wages See Slight Uptick in No…

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Technical Analysis of US Crude, XAUUSD and EURUSD for Today (January 23, 2026)

Technical Analysis of US Crude, XAUUSD and EURUSD for Today (January 23, 2026)

2026.01.23 2026.01.23 Short-Term Analysis for Oil, Gold, and EURUSD for 23.01.2026 Alex Rodionovhttps://www.litefinance.org/blog/authors/alex-rodionov/ Welcome, my fellow traders! I have prepared a price forecast for the USCrude, XAUUSD, and EURUSD using a combination of the margin zones method and technical analysis. Based on the market analysis, I suggest entry signals for intraday traders. The oil price

Bank Of Japan Holds Key Rate

Bank Of Japan Holds Key Rate

The Bank of Japan retained its key interest rate, as widely expected, and raised its economic growth outlook on Friday. The policy board, headed by Ueda Kazuo, voted 8-1 to hold the uncollateralized overnight call rate at around 0.75 percent. Previously, the bank had raised its rate by 25 basis points in December, taking it

Thailand Experiences Surge in Custom-Based Ex…

Thailand Experiences Surge in Custom-Based Ex…

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BoJ Governor to address a press conference after holding interest rate

BoJ Governor to address a press conference after holding interest rate

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda is due to hold a press conference at 6:30 GMT, following the central bank’s decision to hold the benchmark interest rate at 0.75% on Friday.  Traders await additional clues from Ueda’s press conference regarding the expected timing of the BoJ’s next rate hike.  Economic Indicator BoJ Press Conference The

Bank Of Japan Holds Key Rate

Japan Manufacturing PMI Climbs To 51.5 In January

The manufacturing sector in Japan expanded in January, the latest survey from Jibun Bank revealed on Friday with a manufacturing PMI score of 51.5. That’s up from 50.0 in December, which was right on the boom-or-bust line that separates expansion from contraction. The report also showed that the services PMI improved to 53.4 from 51.6

Are we back to normal? – North American session Market wrap for January 22

Are we back to normal? – North American session Market wrap for January 22

Thursday’s session is front-loaded with Asia-Pacific inflation and activity data. New Zealand CPI gets released in a few minutes, followed by Australia’s flash PMIs, setting the tone for regional growth expectations. Attention then turns squarely to Japan in the evening, with national CPI prints ahead of the BoJ rate decision, policy statement and outlook report

Argentina Retail Sales Growth Accelerates in …

Argentina Retail Sales Growth Accelerates in …

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How to Mitigate Risk Before Earnings

How to Mitigate Risk Before Earnings

The S&P 500 already closed the gap but with earnings, you know… you never know. It’s always a tricky event with risk, everyone’s got an opinion, especially us with ourself, and everyone’s got good explanations about why it should go up. Or why it would go down. Then when the report is out, it gets

Bank Of Japan Holds Key Rate

Eurozone Consumer Confidence Highest In 11 Months

Euro area consumer sentiment improved in January to its highest level in nearly a year, preliminary survey data from the European Commission showed on Thursday. The consumer confidence index rose to -12.4 from a revised 13.2 in December. The reading was the highest since February 2025 when the score was -12.3. The corresponding index for

Natural gas explodes by 70% in four sessions: What’s next?

Natural gas explodes by 70% in four sessions: What’s next?

Natural Gas, historically highly correlated with WTI Oil, has largely decoupled over the past four sessions. While the weekly correlation ranged between 0.20 and 1.00 since 2020, it has turned close to negative in late 2025. Since the Sunday open, US Natural Gas prices have exploded by approximately 60%. While initially attributed to fears of

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