XE Market Analysis: Asia – Jan 05, 2018

The dollar recovered its post-jobs report initial losses, as the market came to the realization that despite the NFP miss, the internals of the report were fairly good. EUR-USD retraced under 1.2025 from 1.2083 highs, as USD-JPY moved back over 113.20 from 113.02 lows. USD-CAD did not participated in the comeback rally however, and remained just over its multi-month low of 1.2368 following the stellar Canada employment report. Solid factory orders data were offset by a services ISM miss, leaving the greenback sideways into the weekend after the London close.