The yen enjoyed its safe haven status to gain against the greenback as the US economy has shown signs of weakness. Trade balance in the highlight event this week. Here’s an outlook for the Japanese trading events and an updated technical analysis for USD/JPY. The U.S. dollar climbed further against the yen following a positive bulk of US figures including improvement in the US job market, better housing data and narrowing of the US Current Account deficit. Will this trend continue? USD/JPY daily chart with support and resistance lines on it. Click to enlarge: Let’s Start: Trade Balance: Sunday, 23:50. Trade balance dropped less-than-expected in April to a seasonally adjusted -0.50T, from 0.10T in the prior month. Economists had predicted the trade balance deficit to reach 0.59T. A further increase in deficit to -0.54T is expected now. All Industries Activity: Tuesday, 4:30. Japan’s all industry activity index decreased more-than-expected by 6.3% to 90.7 in March after a 0.7% gain to 96.8 in February indicating a drop in production following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. An increase of 1.9% is predicted. CSPI : Thursday, 23:50. Japan’s corporate services price index (CSPI) decreased by 0.8% in April from a year earlier while services declined by 0.0% from the previous month. A smaller drop of 0.7% is forecasted. *All times are GMT USD/JPY Technical Analysis Dollar/yen managed to rise at the beginning and the middle of the week, gaining ground but falling short of the 81.33 line (mentioned last week). The finish of the week was totally different, with a drop that ended at the round number of 80. Technical lines, from top to bottom: 83.30 is a weak line that capped the pair just before the disaster at the beginning of March and also working as support a few months earlier. 82.87 was the trough before the BOJ intervention in September 2010 and also played an important role in recent weeks as the peak of a recovery attempt. 82.20 capped the pair in a very stubborn way a few weeks ago and remains a strong line now. 81,33 proved to be a distinctive line separating ranges – it was a double top about a month ago and now works as resistance, though weaker than earlier. 80.70 capped the pair several times in recent weeks and remains a strong and immediate line of resistance. 79.75 is the historic low of 1995 and played a critical role when the pair collapsed in March. It worked nicely recently and will be critical for the pair now. It’s followed by 79.16 which is minor resistance as well. The last line is 78.27 – both were significant before the big intervention. I am bullish on USD/JPY. The strength of the yen might trigger an intervention. While the recent economic indicators from the US were quite terrible, Japan isn’t doing much better. The popular cross: FX Tech Strategy sees GBP/JPY maintaining a recovery tone. Further reading: For a broad view of all the week’s major events worldwide, read the USD outlook. For EUR/USD, check out the Euro to Dollar forecast. For GBP/USD (cable), look into the British Pound forecast. For the Australian dollar (Aussie), check out the AUD to USD forecast. For the New Zealand dollar (kiwi), read the NZD forecast. For USD/CAD (loonie), check out the Canadian dollar For the Swiss Franc, see the USD/CHF forecast. Anat Dror Anat Dror Anat Dror Senior Writer I conceptualize, design and create multi-lingual websites. Apart from the technical work, my projects usually consist of writing content for these sites in English, French and Hebrew. In the past, I have built, managed and marketed an e-learning center for language studies, including moderating a live community of students. I've also worked as a community organizer Anat's Google Profile View All Post By Anat Dror MajorsUSD JPY Forecast share Read Next AUD/USD Outlook – June 20-24 Yohay Elam 12 years The yen enjoyed its safe haven status to gain against the greenback as the US economy has shown signs of weakness. Trade balance in the highlight event this week. Here's an outlook for the Japanese trading events and an updated technical analysis for USD/JPY. The U.S. dollar climbed further against the yen following a positive bulk of US figures including improvement in the US job market, better housing data and narrowing of the US Current Account deficit. Will this trend continue? USD/JPY daily chart with support and resistance lines on it. 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