The text in English, preserving the HTML format and decoding entities, is: Dollar/Yen, US retail sales forecast undershoots, but continues to rise for the fourth day, remaining firm.
【6/18Market Overview
Tokyo time, USD/JPY slipped to as low as157.51yen, but then remained bid. In European hours, as the cross yen generally weakened, USD/JPY158yen territory recovered to158.23yen. In New York time, with May U.S. retail sales missing expectations, a dollar sell-off led USD/JPY to157.62yen, and thereafter, supported by gains in euro/yen and other cross yen pairs, USD/JPY was bought back to the upper-157 range.157
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