Japan July Overall Household Spending (YoY) increase to 0.1% vs -0.4%

GBP/JPY continues hovering around immediate support at 152.43 (August 14th highs) after attempting to extend bullish momentum on attempt to recover 0.80% in losses incurred this week. The pair reached 152.50 momentarily on Gfk data but failed to maintain levels after the Nomura/JMMA Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Index was released in Japan.