Today
AUD / JPY
currently at 95.10, from 1-month lows at 93.55 printed in late NY session, following the uncertainty of the Italian elections, leading to a sell-off massively on different risk assets, including equities, the SP500 down -1.83%, -1.17% or oil on the NY, while a big jump in bond prices or yields lower, making U.S. bond yields fell to 10-year lows around 1 month 1.88% .
Bounce occurs after most of the weakness of the yen, with USD / JPY from new lows in February at 90.84 to the highest of the last session at 92.75, 50% Fibo retrace of the last leg from top to bottom yesterday, while the Aussie was also partially restored of the decline, last at 1.0285, after comments RBA assistant governor Guy Debelle said the RBA to lower interest rates to compensate for the high AUD. Nikkei down -1.37% so far, led the decline in the local market scenario overall red.