Forex news for Asia trading Friday 19 December 2014

The yen weakened somewhat throughout the session in Asia today, most notably in the minutes following the release of the BOJ announcement. USD/JPY had settled around 119, and it popped to above 119.30 before settling sideways again. EUR/JPY was higher with it.

AUD and NZD were movers on the session, both gaining ground. there was chatter of a macro fund selling AUD/NZD, and with NZD/USD outperforming AUD/USD on the session this could certainly have been the case. The AUD/NZD decline, though, wasn’t large and what selling there was ran into decent size buyers.

I leave NZD/USD basically on its day’s high, and the AUD/USD a few ticks below its.

Asian equities finished the week strongly on the back of the enormous gains seen in the US overnight.