Against the backdrop of tightening rhetoric from participants in the Middle East crisis, as well as mixed signals from central banks regarding further monetary policy actions, the XRP/USD pair has remained within a narrow sideways range of 1.3671–1.5136 for the sixth consecutive week (Murray levels [4/8]–[7/8]): last week, the quotes tested the upper boundary of this range but failed to break higher and subsequently corrected back towards the 1.5136 area.