Market news

2 August 2017
  • 23:30

    Australia: AIG Services Index, July 56.4

  • 22:27

    Currencies. Daily history for Aug 02’2017:

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

    EUR/USD $1,1853 +0,41%

    GBP/USD $1,3224 +0,13%

    USD/CHF Chf0,96972 +0,48%

    USD/JPY Y110,72 +0,33%

    EUR/JPY Y131,26 +0,74%

    GBP/JPY Y146,433 +0,47%

    AUD/USD $0,7965 -0,03%

    NZD/USD $0,7428 -0,55%

    USD/CAD C$1,25644 +0,21%

  • 22:05

    Schedule for today, Thursday, Aug 03’2017 (GMT0)

    01:30 Australia Trade Balance June 2.471 1.8

    01:45 China Markit/Caixin Services PMI July 51.6

    07:50 France Services PMI (Finally) July 56.9 55.9

    07:55 Germany Services PMI (Finally) July 54 53.5

    08:00 Eurozone Services PMI (Finally) July 55.4 55.4

    08:00 Eurozone ECB Economic Bulletin

    08:30 United Kingdom Purchasing Manager Index Services July 53.4 53.6

    09:00 Eurozone Retail Sales (MoM) June 0.4% 0.1%

    09:00 Eurozone Retail Sales (YoY) June 2.6% 2.6%

    11:00 United Kingdom BOE Inflation Letter

    11:00 United Kingdom Asset Purchase Facility 435 435

    11:00 United Kingdom BoE Interest Rate Decision 0.25% 0.25%

    11:00 United Kingdom Bank of England Minutes

    11:30 United Kingdom BOE Gov Mark Carney Speaks

    12:30 U.S. Continuing Jobless Claims 1964 1960

    12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims 244 242

    13:45 U.S. Services PMI (Finally) July 54.2 54.2

    14:00 U.S. ISM Non-Manufacturing July 57.4 57

    14:00 U.S. Factory Orders June -0.8% 2.9%

  • 14:30

    U.S.: Crude Oil Inventories, July -1.527 (forecast -2.8)

  • 13:50

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

    EURUSD: 1.1600 (EUR 480m) 1.1750 (380m)

    USDJPY: None of note

    GBPUSD: 1.2900 (GBP 435m)

    AUDUSD: 0.8000 (AUD 940m)

    NZDUSD: 0.7400 (NZD 200m) 0.7500 (340m)

    AUDNZD: 1.1000 (AUD 1.1bn)

  • 12:15

    U.S.: ADP Employment Report, July 178 (forecast 185)

  • 09:01

    Eurozone: Producer Price Index, MoM , June -0.1% (forecast -0.1%)

  • 09:01

    Eurozone: Producer Price Index (YoY), June 2.5% (forecast 2.4%)

  • 08:30

    United Kingdom: PMI Construction, July 51.9 (forecast 54.5)

  • 07:30

    Switzerland: Manufacturing PMI, July 60.9 (forecast 58.9)

  • 07:17

    Switzerland: Retail Sales (MoM), June 0.8%

  • 07:15

    Switzerland: Retail Sales Y/Y, June 1.5% (forecast 1.3%)

  • 06:51

    Options levels on wednesday, August 2, 2017

    EUR/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.1917 (4166)

    $1.1884 (3733)

    $1.1861 (4871)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.1826

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.1770 (1665)

    $1.1735 (1757)

    $1.1693 (2769)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 102359 contracts (according to data from August, 1) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1800 (4871);

    GBP/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.3292 (1735)

    $1.3268 (2601)

    $1.3244 (3054)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.3210

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.3163 (138)

    $1.3128 (1025)

    $1.3087 (1031)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 32128 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (3054);

    - Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 31665 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (3023);

    - The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.99 versus 0.97 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 1

    * - 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.

  • 05:45

    Switzerland: SECO Consumer Climate, Quarter III -3 (forecast -3)

  • 05:02

    Japan: Consumer Confidence, July 43.8 (forecast 43.6)

  • 01:30

    Australia: Building Permits, m/m, June 10.9% (forecast 1.5%)

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