USD/JPY Price Forecast: Reclaims 159.00 but RSI divergence caps upside

USD/JPY Price Forecast: Technical Outlook

The USD/JPY pair remains upwardly biased, but verbal intervention by Japanese authorities could prevent the pair from testing the 160.00 figure and the subsequent year-to-date (YTD) high at 160.46.

Worth noting that momentum remains bullish, according to the Relative Strength Index (RSI), but over the last sessions, it has been trending lower, about to cross below the index’s neutral level, hinting that sellers are stepping up.

However, if USD/JPY extends its gains past 159.50, a test of the 160.00 is on the cards. Once surpassed, the next area of interest would be the YTD high at 160.46, followed by July 10, 2024, at 161.81.

On the downside, the first support is 159.00, ahead of diving towards the day’s low of 158.26. Below this are the 50-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) at 157.61 and the 100-day SMA at 156.97.

USD/JPY Price Chart – Daily

Japanese Yen Price Today

The table below shows the percentage change of Japanese Yen (JPY) against listed major currencies today. Japanese Yen was the strongest against the New Zealand Dollar.

	USD	EUR	GBP	JPY	CAD	AUD	NZD	CHF
USD		0.10%	0.19%	0.03%	-0.30%	0.11%	0.39%	0.16%
EUR	-0.10%		0.08%	-0.06%	-0.37%	0.02%	0.26%	0.06%
GBP	-0.19%	-0.08%		-0.13%	-0.50%	-0.08%	0.16%	-0.03%
JPY	-0.03%	0.06%	0.13%		-0.34%	0.08%	0.29%	0.12%
CAD	0.30%	0.37%	0.50%	0.34%		0.41%	0.66%	0.47%
AUD	-0.11%	-0.02%	0.08%	-0.08%	-0.41%		0.24%	0.07%
NZD	-0.39%	-0.26%	-0.16%	-0.29%	-0.66%	-0.24%		-0.20%
CHF	-0.16%	-0.06%	0.03%	-0.12%	-0.47%	-0.07%	0.20%

The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the Japanese Yen from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the US Dollar, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent JPY (base)/USD (quote).