USD/JPY may hold for now, but should eventually head below ¥105 – Deutsche Bank

By FXStreet Taisuke Tanaka, Strategist at Deutsche Bank, suggests that noting the sluggishness in the US economy and the chance that the Fed may forego another rate hike until after the presidential election, we reduced our end-June and end-September forecasts to ¥103 and ¥101 (previously: ¥105 and ¥109).

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“We reiterate our view that the USD/JPY should return to the over-¥110 level next year in line with our economist’s forecast that the US economy should rebound to over 2% growth. Still, we are cautious of downward risk for the short-run.

This week’s first focus will be Japan’s preliminary GDP estimates for 1Q 2016 on Wednesday. The average forecast on the growth is around 0%. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to announce a fiscal stimulus package early next month and shelve the consumption tax hike currently scheduled in April 2017. Still, we cannot envision any outbreak of risk-on weak-yen sentiment amid the mild domestic recession.

The second focus is the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers this Friday and Saturday. Few market participants expect an agreement to coordinate macroeconomic policy, while USD/JPY markets could respond nervously to any warnings or disapproving comments against a currency devaluation war from the US or …read more

Source:: FX Street