USD/JPY trades with a firm tone, supported by buying from US real money accounts today, traders report. The buck is paying less attention than normal to US yields today despite them drifting modestly lower on the session. 10-year notes are down about 3 bp in yield to 2.87% today.

Resistance from the top of the Ichimoku cloud comes in at 83.68 today. We stalled at 83.72 yesterday. USD/JPY trades very quietly around 83.55.