Market Summary (Sep 2, 2025)

We remain in a broadly bearish U.S. dollar regime, with gold holding onto its up-trend and eyeing 3,600–3,700 amid persistent technical breakouts and renewed Chinese buying each Asian session. Political turmoil in Japan’s ruling party has sparked a short-term USD/JPY spike, but our structural view stays JPY-bullish on safe-haven flows and potential BOJ rate hikes versus U.S. labor-market cooling. EUR/USD longs hinge on technical alignment despite hawkish ECB rhetoric, NZD/JPY looks skewed lower over the medium term on RBNZ cuts and JPY strength, and CAD shows little follow-through from lagging GDP data.

Japan ruling LDP turmoil sparks JPY volatility