ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: Gold continues its slide

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ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap:  Gold continues its slide

After gold’s huge fall on Monday, the move carried on further during Asia time. Gold dropped under US$2,300 and is not a lot above there as I update. There was no fresh news to act as a catalyst.

Data flow was light (preliminary PMIs from Australia and Japan), and news flow was also.

We had comments from Japan’s finance minister Suzuki, most notably saying that last week's discussions in Washington laid the groundwork for Japan to take appropriate FX action. USD/JPY hasn’t shown much response, its barely off its highs of the session in a tight range.

Bank of Japan Governor Ueda spoke also, he didn’t add to what we already know of the BOJ considerations for their next policy move (in a nutshell, Ueda reiterated the BOJ's intention to raise its benchmark interest rate if underlying inflation rises toward the 2% target).

The USD lost a little ground. AUD, NZD, EUR, GBP are all slightly higher but there isn’t much in it.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the US is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system due to bank’s aiding in Russia's war on Ukraine. Mainland Chinese stocks are lower on the session while Hong Kong is slightly higher. This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.