Market news

1 August 2017
  • 22:45

    New Zealand: Employment Change, q/q, Quarter II -0.2% (forecast 0.7%)

  • 22:45

    New Zealand: Unemployment Rate, Quarter II 4.8% (forecast 4.8%)

  • 22:17

    Currencies. Daily history for Aug 01’2017:

    (pare/closed(GMT +2)/change, %)

    EUR/USD $1,1804 -0,25%

    GBP/USD $1,3206 +0,00%

    USD/CHF Chf0,96508 -0,16%

    USD/JPY Y110,36 +0,11%

    EUR/JPY Y130,29 -0,15%

    GBP/JPY Y145,752 +0,11%

    AUD/USD $0,7968 -0,40%

    NZD/USD $0,7469 -0,53%

    USD/CAD C$1,25375 +0,41%

  • 21:55

    Schedule for today, Wednesday, Aug 02’2017 (GMT0)

    01:30 Australia Building Permits, m/m June -5.6% 1.5%

    05:00 Japan Consumer Confidence July 43.3

    05:45 Switzerland SECO Consumer Climate Quarter III -8

    07:15 Switzerland Retail Sales Y/Y June -0.3%

    07:15 Switzerland Retail Sales (MoM) June 0.3%

    07:30 Switzerland Manufacturing PMI July 60.1

    08:30 United Kingdom PMI Construction July 54.8 54

    09:00 Eurozone Producer Price Index (YoY) June 3.3% 2.4%

    09:00 Eurozone Producer Price Index, MoM June -0.4% -0.1%

    12:15 U.S. ADP Employment Report July 158 190

    14:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories July -7.208

    16:00 U.S. FOMC Member Mester Speaks

    19:30 U.S. FOMC Member Williams Speaks

    23:30 Australia AIG Services Index July 54.8

  • 19:30

    U.S.: Total Vehicle Sales, mln, July 16.73 (forecast 16.8)

  • 14:00

    U.S.: Construction Spending, m/m, June -1.3% (forecast 0.4%)

  • 14:00

    U.S.: ISM Manufacturing, July 56.3 (forecast 56.5)

  • 13:45

    U.S.: Manufacturing PMI, July 53.3 (forecast 53.2)

  • 13:30

    Option expiries for today's 10:00 ET NY cut

    EURUSD: 1.1500 (EUR 1.05bln ) 1.1550 (335m) 1.1600 (1.1bln) 1.1750 (635m) 1.1800 (975m)

    USDJPY: 110.00 (USD 575m) 110.55-60 (560m)

    AUDUSD: 0.7675 (AUD 280m)

    AUDNZD: 1.0640 (AUD 480m) 1.0660 (270m)

    USDCAD: 1.2500 (USD 245m) 1.2625 (470m)

    EURJPY: 129.00 (EUR 280m)

  • 12:30

    U.S.: PCE price index ex food, energy, Y/Y, June 1.5% (forecast 1.3%)

  • 12:30

    U.S.: Personal spending , June 0.1% (forecast 0.1%)

  • 12:30

    U.S.: PCE price index ex food, energy, m/m, June 0.1% (forecast 0.1%)

  • 12:30

    U.S.: Personal Income, m/m, June 0% (forecast 0.4%)

  • 09:00

    Eurozone: GDP (YoY), Quarter II 2.1% (forecast 2.1%)

  • 09:00

    Eurozone: GDP (QoQ), Quarter II 0.6% (forecast 0.6%)

  • 08:30

    United Kingdom: Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing , July 55.1 (forecast 54.4)

  • 08:00

    Eurozone: Manufacturing PMI, July 56.6 (forecast 56.8)

  • 07:56

    Germany: Unemployment Change, July -9 (forecast -5)

  • 07:55

    Germany: Unemployment Rate s.a. , July 5.7% (forecast 5.7%)

  • 07:55

    Germany: Manufacturing PMI, July 58.1 (forecast 58.3)

  • 07:50

    France: Manufacturing PMI, July 54.9 (forecast 55.4)

  • 06:42

    Options levels on tuesday, August 1, 2017

    EUR/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.1902 (3379)

    $1.1883 (4875)

    $1.1866 (2454)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.1815

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.1777 (1155)

    $1.1738 (1101)

    $1.1694 (2554)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 99754 contracts (according to data from July, 31) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1800 (4875);

    GBP/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.3287 (1781)

    $1.3262 (2598)

    $1.3233 (3056)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.3209

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.3155 (126)

    $1.3123 (995)

    $1.3084 (696)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 31516 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (3056);

    - Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 30713 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (3027);

    - The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.97 versus 0.97 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 31


    * - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange bulletin (CME) is used for the calculation.

    ** - Open interest takes into account the total number of option contracts that are open at the moment.

  • 06:02

    United Kingdom: Nationwide house price index , July 0.3% (forecast -0.1%)

  • 06:01

    United Kingdom: Nationwide house price index, y/y, July 2.9 (forecast 2.7%)

  • 04:30

    Australia: Announcement of the RBA decision on the discount rate, 1.5% (forecast 1.5%)

  • 01:45

    China: Markit/Caixin Manufacturing PMI, July 51.1 (forecast 50.4)

  • 00:31

    Japan: Manufacturing PMI, July 52.1 (forecast 52.2)

1 August 2017
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