Market Analysis
EURUSD weekly: euro drops 111 pips to 1.14817, 2026-09-14
EURUSD gave up 111 pips over the week of 14 September 2026, with the whole loss landing in a single Wednesday session that broke 1.1500.
4 min readGBPJPY opened the week at 207.509 and closed at 210.071. The low arrived first, 207.454 on Monday, and the high arrived last, 210.258 on Friday. That is a net gain of 256 pips, or 1.23 percent. Only Wednesday and Thursday closed lower than the session before them, and Friday's push cleared the Tuesday high at 209.345 without pausing for a retest.
The yen did the work. The Bank of Japan raised rates, and instead of a firmer currency the market got USD/JPY jumping to 157 as dovish dissents on the board undercut the decision. A hike that reads as reluctant hands yen sellers their justification, and the cross responded with its widest daily range of the week on Friday, 208.537 to 210.258, closing within 19 pips of the high.
The mid-week fade was smaller and less interesting. Price slipped from the Wednesday high at 209.469 down to 207.866 on Thursday, giving back roughly 160 pips before buyers reclaimed the range. No release in this data set lines up with those two sessions, which points at position trimming ahead of the Bank of Japan rather than a fresh catalyst. If you were checking GBP/USD for confirmation of the Friday surge, you were watching the wrong leg of the cross. The driver sat on the yen side.
The calendar in this bundle carries no scheduled high impact releases for GBPJPY next week, so the honest answer is that follow-through on the Bank of Japan decision is the variable that matters. Watch how the central bank communicates around the dissents. Messaging that frames the hike as the start of a sequence typically pulls the yen back and pressures the upper part of the cross's range, because carry positions get repriced. Messaging that keeps the dovish flank visible tends to extend yen weakness, and that has been the direction of least resistance all week. On the sterling side, any unscheduled UK fiscal or Bank of England commentary lands on a market that is already long, which usually means a sharper reaction to bad news than to good news.
As of 18 September 2026, positioning sits at 55.5 percent long and 44.5 percent short. That is a lean, not a crowd. Consensus is with the trend, but a skew this modest leaves a real block of shorts still in the market, and those are the orders that accelerate a break higher if they cover. It also means there is no extreme to fade. When positioning is this close to balanced, price tends to respect technical levels more than it respects sentiment.
210.258 is the week's high and the first reference. A daily close above it puts the 211 round number into view as the next obvious area, while a rejection there leaves the Friday open at 208.555 as the level bulls need to defend. Below that, 207.866 marked Thursday's low and 207.454 marked the weekly low, so losing the first without a bounce makes the second the reference point for the range. You can follow the cross tick by tick and set your own alerts around those levels once you open an LHFX account.
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