Market news

7 August 2017
  • 23:50

    Japan: Current Account, bln, June 935 (forecast 814)

  • 22:27

    Currencies. Daily history for Aug 07’2017:

    (pare/closed(GMT +3)/change, %)

    EUR/USD $1,1794 +0,21%

    GBP/USD $1,3034 +0,02%

    USD/CHF Chf0,9725 -0,02%

    USD/JPY Y110,76 +0,08%

    EUR/JPY Y130,63 +0,28%

    GBP/JPY Y144,37 +0,11%

    AUD/USD $0,7911 -0,21%

    NZD/USD $0,7359 -0,73%

    USD/CAD C$1,2676 +0,22%

  • 21:58

    Schedule for today,Tuesday, Aug 08’2017 (GMT0)

    01:30 Australia National Australia Bank's July 9

    02:00 China Trade Balance, bln July 42.75 46.08

    05:00 Japan Eco Watchers Survey: Outlook July 50.5

    05:00 Japan Eco Watchers Survey: Current July 50 49.8

    05:45 Switzerland Unemployment Rate (non s.a.) July 3% 3%

    06:00 Germany Current Account June 17.3

    06:00 Germany Trade Balance (non s.a.), bln June 22.0

    06:45 France Trade Balance, bln June -4.9 -5.1

    12:15 Canada Housing Starts July 212.7

    14:00 U.S. JOLTs Job Openings June 5.666

    22:35 Australia RBA Assist Gov Kent Speaks

  • 19:00

    U.S.: Consumer Credit , June 12.4 (forecast 15.54)

  • 13:41

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

    EURUSD: 1.1600 (EUR 285m) 1.1675 (314m) 1.1800 (E896m) 1.1875 (283m)

    USDJPY: 109.00 (USD 365m) 109.25 (295m) 110.75-80 (1.74bln) 111.00-05 (748m)111.35 (405m) 111.55-60 (862m)

    GBPUSD: 1.3000 (GBP 430m) 1.3075 (400m) 1.3170-75 (300m) 1.3230 (550m)

  • 08:32

    Eurozone: Sentix Investor Confidence, August 27.7

  • 07:30

    United Kingdom: Halifax house price index 3m Y/Y, July 2.1% (forecast 2%)

  • 07:30

    United Kingdom: Halifax house price index, July 0.4% (forecast 0.2%)

  • 07:16

    Switzerland: Consumer Price Index (YoY), July 0.3% (forecast 0.3%)

  • 07:16

    Switzerland: Consumer Price Index (MoM) , July -0.3% (forecast -0.3%)

  • 07:00

    Switzerland: Foreign Currency Reserves, July 714.3

  • 06:00

    Germany: Industrial Production s.a. (MoM), June -1.1% (forecast 0.2%)

  • 05:02

    Japan: Coincident Index, June 117.2

  • 05:01

    Japan: Leading Economic Index , June 106.3 (forecast 106.2)

  • 04:33

    Options levels on monday, August 7, 2017

    EUR/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.1942 (2108)

    $1.1914 (2628)

    $1.1868 (2568)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.1796

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.1677 (2171)

    $1.1652 (2582)

    $1.1623 (2504)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 8 is 111767 contracts (according to data from August, 4) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (4652);

    GBP/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.3221 (2579)

    $1.3165 (963)

    $1.3109 (863)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.3056

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.2962 (991)

    $1.2910 (1575)

    $1.2844 (1945)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 8 is 26589 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3150 (2579);

    - Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 8 is 23990 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2850 (2608);

    - The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.90 versus 0.98 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 4

    * - 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.

  • 01:31

    Australia: ANZ Job Advertisements (MoM), July 1.5%

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