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USD/JPY rushed to 97.22 lows on “safe-haven” behavior

FXstreet.com (Chicago) - USD/JPY welcomes Monday losing against a stronger yen on potential risk aversion behavior due to the uncertainty triggered by an indefinite US political crisis.

My way or the highway?

Last Friday, House Speaker Boehner said he would not allow other politicians to paralyze the country fueling the dollar higher momentarily. Over the weekend, he insisted saying “You’ve never seen a more dedicated group of people who are thoroughly concerned about the future of our country. The nation’s credit is at risk because of the administration’s refusal to sit down and have a conversation”. Referring to Barack Obama and his fellow advocates, the discourse evidences no progress whatsoever in terms of open-mindedness. In Japan, the BoJ monthly economic survey results are expected along the confident and leading economic indexes.

USD/JPY Technical Levels

Technically speaking, the pair trades at 97.29 and oscillates between supports aligned at 96.92 (October 3rd lows), 96.42 (August 10th lows) followed by 95.92 (August 8th lows) and getting close to the resistances set at 97.44 (August 29th lows), 98.34 (August 29th highs) followed by 99.12 (September 26th highs).

Political landscape in the U.S. getting uglier by the day...

The notion that the current U.S. political stalemate will not be easily resolved, thus the duration of the US government shutdown may prolong for a longer-than-expected period is a thought starting to cross a wider sector of market participants, especially if one reads the weekend headlines, with the Financial Times reporting House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner - Republican - as saying it was "time for us to stand and fight."
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AUD/USD opens the week slightly lower; 0.9456 looms large just above

The AUD/USD enters the week at a crossroads between an explosion higher through technical resistance and a potentially disastrous failure at that resistance that could lead to a massive move lower.
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