GBP/JPY pinned to the high side as Yen market flows reverse direction


  • GBP/JPY looking to reclaim 182.00 as Yen-based pairs recover ground.
  • A thin economic calendar has markets focusing on broad directional flows.
  • China Services PMI early Thursday could drive Asia market session risk appetite.

The GBP/JPY has climbed over 1.3% on Wednesday as the Pound Sterling (GBP) recovered recently lost ground against the Japanese Yen (JPY), rising from a two-week low near 178.75 to come within challenge range of the 182.00 handle.

FX market flows are broadly pivoting out of JPY bets, driving the Japanese Yen down across the board and making the JPY handily the worst performer of the major currency bloc for the mid-week. 

The Yen is kicking off 2024 with a broad-base selloff as equity pours out of the Yen in favor of higher-yielding assets with the Bank of Japan (BoJ) firmly entrenched in their hypereasy monetary policy stance.

The Asia market session saw moderating risk appetite on Tuesday following China’s unexpected beat in Chinese Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) figures, coming in at 50.8 for December compared to November’s 50.7, a small gain but upending market forecasts of a decline to 50.4. With the Chinese Services PMI due early Thursday, a joint beat of PMI figures could see risk sentiment broadly hold higher heading into the back half of the first trading week of 2024.

GBP/JPY Technical Outlook

The Guppy’s Wednesday surge has the GBP/JPY easily clearing the 200-hour Simple Moving Average (SMA) near 180.50 as the pair gears up for a fresh run at the 182.00 handle. Despite the mid-week surge, the GBP/JPY remains firmly down from recent swing highs into 184.00 from mid-December.

Daily candlesticks reveal potential for an extended topside run after a bounce from the 200-day SMA near 179.50. The GBP/JPY could be geared for a challenge of the 50-day SMA near the 184.00 handle with the pair seeing a bullish rejection from the 200-day SMA for the first time since breaking into the high side of the long-term moving average back in April of 2023.

GBP/JPY Hourly Chart

GBP/JPY Daily Chart

GBP/JPY Technical Levels

GBP/JPY

Overview
Today last price 181.68
Today Daily Change 2.54
Today Daily Change % 1.42
Today daily open 179.14
 
Trends
Daily SMA20 181.25
Daily SMA50 183.83
Daily SMA100 183.54
Daily SMA200 179.34
 
Levels
Previous Daily High 180.65
Previous Daily Low 178.74
Previous Weekly High 182.2
Previous Weekly Low 179
Previous Monthly High 187.52
Previous Monthly Low 178.35
Daily Fibonacci 38.2% 179.47
Daily Fibonacci 61.8% 179.92
Daily Pivot Point S1 178.37
Daily Pivot Point S2 177.6
Daily Pivot Point S3 176.46
Daily Pivot Point R1 180.28
Daily Pivot Point R2 181.42
Daily Pivot Point R3 182.19

 


 

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