The Japanese Yen (JPY) is attempting to recover a portion of recent losses against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday expectations that US President Donald Trump would fire Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell heated up and then died down.
The Japanese Yen (JPY) is weak, down 0.4% against the US Dollar (USD) and trading heavily in an environment of trade policy uncertainty, Scotiabank's Chief FX Strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret report.
Inflation in the Greater Tokyo Area, a reliable early indicator of price trends throughout Japan, rose less sharply than expected in June. Prices rose by 3.1% year-on-year, compared with a rise of 3.4% during the previous month, Commerzbank's FX analyst Volkmar Baur notes.