The US session (New York open · the afternoon drive) · updated 2026-09-23 12:00 UTC.
Good afternoon. The dollar bid that carried Asia and London is still standing as New York takes over: USD/JPY holds its BULLISH LEANING label at 157.482, while EUR/USD (1.14691) and GBP/USD (1.33731) both stay NEUTRAL — so the story continues rather than reverses. The wires remain crypto-flavoured, with the ECB pushing to scrap MiCA's 60% stablecoin reserve rule, Tether walking away from its EU licence, and Binance taking a $100m Circle stake.
This window is light on tier-one data — US Flash Manufacturing and Services PMIs sit at Low, with Crude Oil Inventories and FOMC members Barr and Goolsbee also Low. The real weight was this morning's UK Flash PMIs, already in the books.
What to watch: does the dollar bid hold through the US prints? USD/JPY's 157.28018 support is still the line — hold it and the lean has something to stand on; lose it and the H4 down structure gets a vote. Gold stays BEARISH CLEAR with 4333.73 beneath and 4359.91 overhead. And with the tilt gauge flipping 6 times on USD/JPY and 4 on gold in 24 hours, treat any single label change as noise, not a turn.
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