AUD/JPY back-and-forth through Tuesday, opens Asia targeting 88.00

• AUD/JPY declines through New York, rebounds from 87.80.
• Aussie struggles to make headway against strengthening Yen.

AUD/JPY has found its footing in the overnight session, trading around 0.7365 after declining through New York. The Aussie lost ground to the Yen in New York, declining from yesterday's high of 0.7420 after gaining through Asia and London yesterday, with the Yen continuing to strengthen despite dovish commentary from officials at the Bank of Japan.

BoJ Governor Kuroda, and Deputy Governor Iwata have had a tough time convincing markets that tightening of their easy monetary policy is unlikely anytime soon, with currency markets piling into a strengthening Yen on anticipation of the BoJ beginning to wrap up their QQE program within the next year. While Japan has had positive economic data recently, growth is still well below the central bank's targets, and challenges to future growth are still present, such as the slowdown expected by policy makers for the first half of 2018. 

The Aussie continues to wither in intraday trading following a miss for inflation data this week with CPI coming in at 1.9%, under the expected 2.0%, and while the island continent is experiencing growth, the numbers continue to consistently disappoint market forecasts, applying downward pressure to the Aussie.

Economic reports for the rest of the week are slim for both the Aussie and the Yen, with Japanese Foreign Investment at 23:50 GMT, and trade price indexes with building permits for Australia at 00:30. 

AUD/JPY Technical Levels

Intraday swing support/resistance at 87.80 and 88.11, respectively, with the previous day's high at 88.49 and the low at 87.63.

Today's Pivot Points:
R2: 88.87
R1: 88.40
PP: 88.02
S1: 87.55
S2: 87.16