Market news

3 August 2017
  • 22:26

    Currencies. Daily history for Aug 03’2017:

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

    EUR/USD $1,1869 +0,13%

    GBP/USD $1,3135 -0,67%

    USD/CHF Chf0,96811 -0,17%

    USD/JPY Y109,96 -0,69%

    EUR/JPY Y130,53 -0,56%

    GBP/JPY Y144,451 -1,37%

    AUD/USD $0,7950 -0,19%

    NZD/USD $0,7435 +0,10%

    USD/CAD C$1,258 +0,12%

  • 21:58

    Schedule for today, Friday, Aug 04’2017 (GMT0)

    00:00 Japan Labor Cash Earnings, YoY June 0.7% 0.6%

    01:30 Australia Retail Sales, M/M June 0.6% 0.2%

    01:30 Australia RBA Monetary Policy Statement

    06:00 Germany Factory Orders s.a. (MoM) June 1.0% 0.5%

    12:30 Canada Trade balance, billions June -1.09 -1.35

    12:30 Canada Unemployment rate July 6.5% 6.5%

    12:30 Canada Employment July 45.3 10

    12:30 U.S. Government Payrolls July 35

    12:30 U.S. Average workweek July 34.5 34.5

    12:30 U.S. Manufacturing Payrolls July 1 5

    12:30 U.S. Private Nonfarm Payrolls July 187 180

    12:30 U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate July 62.8%

    12:30 U.S. Average hourly earnings July 0.2% 0.3%

    12:30 U.S. International Trade, bln June -46.5 -45

    12:30 U.S. Unemployment Rate July 4.4% 4.3%

    12:30 U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls July 222 183

    14:00 Canada Ivey Purchasing Managers Index July 61.6 59.2

    17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count August 766

  • 14:00

    U.S.: ISM Non-Manufacturing, July 53.9 (forecast 57)

  • 14:00

    U.S.: Factory Orders , June 3% (forecast 2.9%)

  • 13:45

    U.S.: Services PMI, July 54.7 (forecast 54.2)

  • 13:31

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

    EURUSD: 1.1595-1.1600 (EUR 770m) 1.1650 (330m) 1.1685-95 (430m) 1.1800 (355m) 1.1855-65 (335m)

    USDJPY: 109.00 (USD 395m) 110.00-10 (1.02bln) 110.70 (480m) 111.50 (420m) 111.75-80 ($1.02bln) 112.10-15 (635m)

    GBPUSD: 1.3250 (GBP 250m)

    AUDUSD: 0.7700 (AUD 445m) 0.7800 (428m)

    AUDNZD: 1.1000 (AUD 1.8bn)

  • 12:30

    U.S.: Continuing Jobless Claims, 1968 (forecast 1955)

  • 12:30

    U.S.: Initial Jobless Claims, 240 (forecast 242)

  • 11:00

    United Kingdom: Asset Purchase Facility, 435 (forecast 435)

  • 11:00

    United Kingdom: BoE Interest Rate Decision, 0.25% (forecast 0.25%)

  • 09:00

    Eurozone: Retail Sales (YoY), June 3.1% (forecast 2.6%)

  • 09:00

    Eurozone: Retail Sales (MoM), June 0.5% (forecast 0.1%)

  • 08:30

    United Kingdom: Purchasing Manager Index Services, July 53.8 (forecast 53.6)

  • 08:00

    Eurozone: Services PMI, July 55.4 (forecast 55.4)

  • 07:55

    Germany: Services PMI, July 53.1 (forecast 53.5)

  • 07:50

    France: Services PMI, July 56 (forecast 55.9)

  • 06:34

    Options levels on thursday, August 3, 2017

    EUR/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.1968 (1533)

    $1.1936 (2360)

    $1.1901 (4837)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.1843

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.1788 (2179)

    $1.1744 (1526)

    $1.1696 (3482)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 103716 contracts (according to data from August, 2) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1800 (4837);

    GBP/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.3296 (1762)

    $1.3276 (2601)

    $1.3256 (2966)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.3226

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.3173 (527)

    $1.3136 (1065)

    $1.3093 (1040)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 32925 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (2966);

    - Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 32794 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (3023);

    - The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.00 versus 0.99 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 2

    * - 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.

  • 01:45

    China: Markit/Caixin Services PMI, July 51.5 (forecast 51.9)

  • 01:30

    Australia: Trade Balance , June 0.86 (forecast 1.8)

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