Why did USD/JPY move?
Pick any day. Barqish compares the move with a normal day, checks volume, separates the market-wide part from USD/JPY’s own part, flags key levels, and lists dated headlines from that day.
Biggest moves in the last 30 days:
USD/JPY fell 0.79% on 3 Sep 2026, closing at 158.9230.
That is about 6.5× its usual daily move, bigger than 89% of days in the year before.
The US dollar (measured against the euro) moved +0.088% the same day. Based on how USD/JPY has moved with it over the last 90 days (correlation 0.53), about +0.069% of the move lines up with that, and -0.86% was specific to USD/JPY.
USD/JPY moved against the US dollar (measured against the euro), which points to something specific to USD/JPY.
It traded in a 2.25% range and closed near the day's high.
It opened 0.81% below the previous close (a gap), so part of the move happened while the market was closed.
Headlines around that day
- Bitcoin Reclaims $80, 000 as Weak Dollar Meets Suspected Yen Interventioncointelegraph.com · 4 Sep, 03:30 PKT
- Crypto Market Today, Sept. 3: Bitcoin Reclaims $81, 000 on Fed Rate Pause Signalsfool.com · 4 Sep, 03:15 PKT
Headlines are shown for context. A headline on the same day is not proof that it caused the move.
This explains what the data shows. It is not a forecast or advice. Sources: Daily FX reference bars, delayed, Publisher headlines (links go to the source), GDELT Project news index.
How this works
- Normal day: the move is compared with the median daily move of the previous 90 days, and ranked against the past year.
- Market part: dollar pairs are compared with EUR/USD as a dollar gauge. Rupee pairs use reference rates and SBP data. It is an estimate, not an exact split.
- Headlines: dated headlines from publishers that mention the asset, from about six hours before the day starts to six hours after it ends (UTC). Our own archive runs from 30 September 2026; older crypto, gold and rupee days use the GDELT news index where available.
- Free and Pro: free explains the last 30 days; Pro explains any day in the full history.
Education, not financial advice. A headline on the same day is not proof of cause.