Japan September Services PMI 53.8 (prior 54.3)

Jibun Bank / S&P Global September final PMIs.

Preliminary and priors are here:

• flash Services PMI

And the final for the manufacturing PMI is here:

• Japan final manufacturing PMI for September 48.5 (prior 49.6)

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The focus for the session is on how USD/JPY responds to its collapse during US time:

• USD/JPY smashed lower in sign of intervention
• Japan senior MOF official asked about intervention: No comment

• Japan’s “Mr Yen” Kanda has no comment on whether Japan intervened in the FX market

USD/JPY update (I cut the overnight plunge out of this chart to give you a better pic of the moves since):

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.