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The trillion dollar package still remains the headline

Mar 12, 2021 05:30

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USD/JPY stays firm. There revolves a positive sentiment for greenback as traders cheer US President Joe Biden’s passage of $1.9 trillion stimulus. Bulls are chained ahead of the key speech from US President.

Recently the $1.9 trillion package has been approved to combat the coronavirus (COVID-19), There are also chatters taking place that US President Biden has a $2.5 trillion infrastructure plan is on the way that will be proposed next month.

The $ 1.9 trillion bill includes $1,400 payments, an extension of jobless benefits, and a child tax credit that is expected to lift millions out of poverty. In a major legislative win for Mr Biden, the spending bill, one of the largest in US history, passed Congress without a single Republican supporter. Meanwhile, Biden says that his stimulus will fuel a faster US recovery while the jobs outlook is still dull.

Biden also says, that by the end of May will have vaccines for all Americans. “My fellow Americans,” he said, ”you’re owed nothing less than the truth. And for all of you asking when things will get back to normal, here is the truth. The only way to get our lives back, to get our economy back on track, is to beat the virus.” Biden said that they are on track to reach goal of giving 100 million covid shots by his 60th day in office.

The latest news of the Vaccine updates from Novavax and AstraZeneca are important that adds to the risk sentiment in the market as the former suggests the upbeat capacity to battle the UK covid strains whereas the later conveys the inability to match delivery targets for the European Union (EU).

On the other hand,  latest news has arrived. Japan needs to unleash nearly USD700 billion in extra spending to ensure a quick and sustainable recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, Kozo Yamamoto, an influential Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker, said on Friday.

USD/JPY 4 Hour Chart:

Support: 108.30 (S1), 108.10 (S2), 107.84 (S3)

Resistance: 108.75 (R1), 109.01 (R2), 109.21 (R3).

Amidst all the catalysts favoring greenback against yen, we expect a bullish trend for USD/JPY.

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