Market news

8 August 2017
  • 22:26

    Currencies. Daily history for Aug 08’2017:

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

    EUR/USD $1,1749 -0,38%

    GBP/USD $1,2989 -0,34%

    USD/CHF Chf0,9733 +0,08%

    USD/JPY Y110,31 -0,41%

    EUR/JPY Y129,62 -0,78%

    GBP/JPY Y143,28 -0,76%

    AUD/USD $0,7911 +0,00%

    NZD/USD $0,7327 -0,43%

    USD/CAD C$1,26659 -0,08%

  • 22:01

    Schedule for today, Wednesday, Aug 09’2017 (GMT0)

    00:30 Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence August 96.6

    01:30 Australia Home Loans June 1.0% 1.5%

    01:30 China PPI y/y July 5.5% 5.5%

    01:30 China CPI y/y July 1.5% 1.5%

    06:00 Japan Prelim Machine Tool Orders, y/y July 31.1%

    12:15 Canada Housing Starts July 212.7

    12:30 Canada Building Permits (MoM) June 8.9%

    12:30 U.S. Unit Labor Costs, q/q (Preliminary) Quarter II 2.2% 1.2%

    12:30 U.S. Nonfarm Productivity, q/q (Preliminary) Quarter II 0% 0.7%

    14:00 U.S. Wholesale Inventories June 0.4% 0.6%

    14:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories August -1.527

    17:00 U.S. FOMC Member Charles Evans Speaks

    21:00 New Zealand RBNZ Interest Rate Decision 1.75% 1.75%

    21:00 New Zealand RBNZ Rate Statement

    22:00 New Zealand RBNZ Press Conference

    23:50 Japan Core Machinery Orders June -3.6% 3.7%

    23:50 Japan Core Machinery Orders, y/y June 0.6% -1%

  • 14:00

    U.S.: JOLTs Job Openings, June 6.163

  • 13:39

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

    EURUSD: 1.1650 (EUR 345m) 1.1800 (550m)

    USDJPY: 109.00 (USD 300m) 110.25 (360m) 110.55-60 (360m) 111.00 (490m)

    GBPUSD: 1.3000-05 (GBP 300m)

    AUDUSD: 0.7950 (AUD 2.5bln)

    AUDNZD: 1.0560 (AUD 480m) 1.0715-20 (345m)

    EURJPY: 128.85-90 (EUR 405m)

  • 06:47

    France: Trade Balance, bln, June -4.7 (forecast -5.1)

  • 06:41

    Options levels on tuesday, August 8, 2017

    EUR/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.1924 (2570)

    $1.1901 (1611)

    $1.1868 (1718)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.1803

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.1741 (862)

    $1.1720 (1197)

    $1.1696 (2382)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 8 is 115334 contracts (according to data from August, 7) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (4828);

    GBP/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.3217 (2858)

    $1.3186 (1720)

    $1.3136 (3052)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.3037

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.2982 (928)

    $1.2940 (1068)

    $1.2882 (1970)


    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 8 is 28304 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (3052);

    - Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 8 is 24706 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2850 (2619);

    - The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.87 versus 0.90 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 7

    * - 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

    Germany: Current Account , June 23.6

  • 06:01

    Germany: Trade Balance (non s.a.), bln, June 22.3

  • 05:45

    Switzerland: Unemployment Rate (non s.a.), July 3% (forecast 3%)

  • 05:16

    Japan: Eco Watchers Survey: Current , July 49.7 (forecast 49.8)

  • 05:16

    Japan: Eco Watchers Survey: Outlook, July 50.3

  • 02:51

    China: Trade Balance, bln, July 46.74 (forecast 46.08)

  • 01:30

    Australia: National Australia Bank's Business Confidence, July 12

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