JPY traders (and others) – it's a Japanese market holiday today

<p>A reminder that it's a holiday in Japan today and markets there are closed. </p><p>This will thin out interest and liquidity during the Asian timezone somewhat. There will be no cash US Treasury trade in Japan. </p><p>Other major regional FX centres are open: New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Mainland China is also open. </p><p>There is<a href="https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/economic-calendar-in-asia-17-july-2023-chinese-data-and-pboc-rate-setting-20230716/" target="_blank" rel="follow"> plenty of data </a>coming today during the timezone, China Q2 GDP and June economic activity. We also get the People's Bank of China Medium-term Lending Facility (MLF) rate setting today. </p><p>Japan Marine (Sea) day 17 July 2023 </p>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.