USD/JPY: Move higher faltering at 110.00 - Commerzbank

Karen Jones, analyst at Commerzbank, suggests that for the USD/JPY pair intraday Elliott wave counts remain negative and the daily Elliott wave count continues to indicate failure ahead of 110.30 as the correction higher is faltering at 110.00.

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“We would then allow slippage back towards 107.75/50 band and possibly the 104.10 spike low. The recent move lower was exhaustive and we suspect that this will hold for now.”

“Above 110.30 will allow for a retest of the 111.38 the 26th October low. Support at 104.63/10 guards the 100.70 Fibonacci support and the 99.00 2016 low. Initial support lies 107.77, 10th January low.”