{"id":34133,"date":"2012-12-07T07:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=34133"},"modified":"2012-12-07T07:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T12:27:26","slug":"usdjpy-usdjpy-plunges-caused-by-a-boj-official-pushing-a-2-inflation-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/12\/07\/usdjpy-usdjpy-plunges-caused-by-a-boj-official-pushing-a-2-inflation-target\/","title":{"rendered":"USD\/JPY: USDJPY Plunges Caused By A BOJ Official Pushing a 2% Inflation Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though US consumer confidence held close to a seven-month high<br \/>\ncaused by the buoyant spending this holiday-shopping season, and claims<br \/>\nfor unemployment benefits declined, the reports regarding measures to<br \/>\nend Japan\u2019s deflation led the Japanese yen to immense by 8 pips versus<br \/>\nthe American dollar in the preceding days trades.<\/p>\n<p>The Yen is<br \/>\nanticipated to win in the upcoming Asian session as Bank of Japan Deputy<br \/>\n Governor Kazumasa Iwata pushes the introduction of an inflation target<br \/>\nof 1.5 percent or higher. After seeing that the current efforts of the<br \/>\nBOJ and the government are insufficient, the Iwata suggests that they<br \/>\nstep-up cooperation in fighting deflation through jointly establishing a<br \/>\n fund to prevent financial crises. The central bank aims for<br \/>\nyear-on-year growth of 1 percent in the Core CPI while the Liberal<br \/>\nDemocratic Party is calling on the BOJ to set the inflation goat at 2<br \/>\npercent. The added suggestion for the government and the BOJ to outline<br \/>\ntheir resolve and measures to beat deflation and promote structural<br \/>\nreforms sees the prevention of the deflations risks, which will increase<br \/>\n if the CPI growth falls below 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The US Unemployment<br \/>\nRate however is alleged to wane good opportunities for the Greenback as<br \/>\neconomists expected the Jobless Rate to remain unchanged at 7.9 percent<br \/>\nin November. What\u2019s more is that the private sector continues to be<br \/>\nfearful that a sharp tightening of the government&#8217;s budget could push<br \/>\nthe economy into recession, causing them to be cautious about<br \/>\naggressively spending on labor and capital. In turn, the nervousness of<br \/>\nbusinesses sees the slowdown of economic activity that will further<br \/>\nimpede the US economy from moving back to recovery. While America is far<br \/>\n from getting past the fiscal cliff and the inflation target of Japan<br \/>\nbeing pushed to be set at a higher level, a sell position is measured<br \/>\napt for the USDJPY pair.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis, technical charts and candlestick analysis, visit <a target=\"\" title=\"AlgosysFx Forex Trading Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.algosysfx.com\">AlgosysFx Forex Trading Solutions<\/a>                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though US consumer confidence held close to a seven-month high caused by the buoyant spending this holiday-shopping season, and claims for unemployment benefits declined, the reports regarding measures to end Japan\u2019s deflation led the Japanese yen to immense by 8 pips versus the American dollar in the preceding days trades. The Yen is anticipated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/12\/07\/usdjpy-usdjpy-plunges-caused-by-a-boj-official-pushing-a-2-inflation-target\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USD\/JPY: USDJPY Plunges Caused By A BOJ Official Pushing a 2% Inflation Target&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}