Market Analysis
AUDUSD midweek: Aussie reclaims 0.6987 after Monday dip, 2026-07-13
AUDUSD trades at 0.69875 midweek, up roughly 46 pips from Monday's open, with a thin back-half calendar and the daily PBOC fix in focus.
2 min readAs of Wednesday's close, JPN225 trades at 68,644. That is up 112 points from Monday's open of 68,532, though the path there was anything but straight. The week's high sits at 69,068, printed Monday morning, and the low at 66,252, tagged Tuesday. The index has clawed back most of Monday's slide and now sits within reach of where it started.
The bundle carries no scheduled events or headlines for the sessions that have passed, so the move reads as pure price action. Monday opened at 68,532 and sold off hard to 66,352 before closing at 66,788, a drop of over 1,700 points intraday. Tuesday reversed the tone entirely, opening at 66,790 and closing at 68,260. Wednesday extended that recovery to 68,644. The two-day rebound off Tuesday's low tells you buyers stepped in near 66,250 and have held control since.
The bundle lists no scheduled high-impact events for the back half of this week. That puts the weight on technical follow-through rather than a data catalyst. If the index keeps building on the Tuesday reversal, the Monday high near 69,068 becomes the obvious test. If momentum fades and price slips back through 67,800, Tuesday's low near 66,250 comes back into the conversation.
As of Wednesday morning, 54.1 percent of positions are long and 45.9 percent are short. That is a mild lean toward the upside, consistent with the two-day recovery, but it is far from a crowded trade. A skew this close to even suggests the market has not committed to a direction after Monday's shakeout.
Watch 68,644 and the round 69,000 handle above it. If price holds above the Wednesday close and pushes into 69,000, the Monday high at 69,068 is the next reference. If sellers defend that zone and drag price back below 67,800, the recovery loses its footing and 66,250 is back in play. If you want to track index moves alongside peers like the DAX 30, you can open an account with LHFX and follow the price action live.
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