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The USD/JPY pair attracts heavy selling on Monday and sticks to its intraday losses around mid-155.00s, or a one-and-a-half-week low, during the early European session. Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda offered the strongest signal yet of an interest rate hike later this month.

EUR/USD seems to have entered a consolidation slightly below 1.1600 after rising more than 0.7% in the previous week.

Gold is firming up near $4,250 early Monday, its highest level in six weeks. Gold buyers retain control at the start of a new month amid growing calls for another interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) as early as next week.

The EUR/USD pair held within familiar levels in the last trading day of November, settling below the 1.1600 mark. The pair had made little progress throughout the month and even clinched a fresh three-month low of 1.1468, despite broad US Dollar (USD) weakness.