Market news

29 May 2017
  • 23:51

    Japan: Retail sales, y/y, April 3.2% (forecast 2.3%)

  • 23:30

    Japan: Household spending Y/Y, April -1.4% (forecast -0.7%)

  • 23:30

    Japan: Unemployment Rate, April 2.8% (forecast 2.8%)

  • 22:45

    New Zealand: Building Permits, m/m, April -7.6%

  • 22:28

    Currencies. Daily history for May 29’2017:

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

    EUR/USD $1,1152 -0,25%

    GBP/USD $1,2832 +0,21%

    USD/CHF Chf0,9778 +0,36%

    USD/JPY Y111,27 -0,04%

    EUR/JPY Y124,09 -0,29%

    GBP/JPY Y142,78 +0,18%

    AUD/USD $0,7437 -0,09%

    NZD/USD $0,7052 -0,16%

    USD/CAD C$1,3457 +0,06%

  • 21:56

    Schedule for today, Tuesday, May 30’2017 (GMT0)

    00:01 China Bank holiday

    01:30 Australia Building Permits, m/m April -13.4% 3%

    06:45 France Consumer confidence May 100 101

    06:45 France GDP, q/q (Revised) Quarter I 0.5% 0.3%

    06:45 France GDP, Y/Y (Revised) Quarter I 1.2% 0.8%

    07:00 Switzerland KOF Leading Indicator May 106.0

    09:00 Eurozone Industrial confidence May 2.6 3

    09:00 Eurozone Business climate indicator May 1.09 1.11

    09:00 Eurozone Consumer Confidence (Finally) May -3.6 -3.3

    09:00 Eurozone Economic sentiment index May 109.6 110.1

    12:00 Germany CPI, m/m (Preliminary) May 0% -0.1%

    12:00 Germany CPI, y/y (Preliminary) May 2% 1.6%

    12:30 Canada Industrial Product Price Index, y/y April 5.1%

    12:30 Canada Industrial Product Price Index, m/m April 0.8%

    12:30 Canada Current Account, bln Quarter I -10.7

    12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, m/m April -0.1% 0.1%

    12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, Y/Y April 1.6%

    12:30 U.S. Personal spending April 0.0% 0.4%

    12:30 U.S. Personal Income, m/m April 0.2% 0.4%

    13:00 U.S. S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, y/y March 5.9% 5.8%

    14:00 U.S. Consumer confidence May 120.3 119.5

    17:00 U.S. FOMC Member Brainard Speaks

    21:00 New Zealand RBNZ Financial Stability Report

    23:05 United Kingdom Gfk Consumer Confidence May -7 -8

    23:50 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) (Preliminary) April -1.9% 4.3%

    23:50 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) (Preliminary) April 3.5%

  • 13:40

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

    EURUSD: 1.1000 (EUR (301m) 1.1150-60 (230m) 1.1260-70 (235m) 1.1300 (229m)

    USDJPY: 110.00-10 (USD 1.3bln) 110.50 (487m) 110.80 (202m) 111.00-10 (765m) 111.50 (418m) 112.00 (332m)

    GBPUSD: 1.2825-35 (GBP 388m)

    EURGBP: 0.8600 (EUR 307m)

    AUDUSD: 0.7400 (AUD 305m) 0.7465-75 (546m) 0.7500 (232m)

    NZDUSD: 0.6900 (NZD 284m) 0.7000-10 (468m)

  • 12:59

    Brazil's 2018 year-end selic rate forecast 8.50 pct vs 8.50 pct previous week - weekly Central Bank survey

    • Gdp growth forecast 0.49 pct vs 0.50 pct previous week

    • 2018 gdp growth forecast 2.48 pct vs 2.50 pct previous week

    • 2017 inflation forecast 3.95 pct vs 3.92 pct

  • 12:27

    Trump says North Korea has shown "great disrespect" to China with missile test but says "China is trying hard!"

  • 11:17
  • 10:50

    Germany, G7 partners hope that US will remain committed to the Paris climate accord - Merkel spokesman

  • 10:12

    ECB's Nowotny says wage growth will come if upswing continues

  • 09:24

    ECB's Villeroy says we would refuse a "Basel IV" bank capital deal that would not reflect the specificities of french banks

    • Says french officials are having serious talks with banks seeking to leave London; Paris has "every chance" of attracting financial institutions

    • Doesn't see how clearing of euro transactions can be done in london after Brexit

    • Better coordination on bank regulation needed between Frankfurt, Brussels and national authorities

  • 09:06

    British suicide bomber Abedi was one of 20,000 people who were known to MI5, but not one of 3,000 people who were under active investigation - Source

  • 08:40

    Forex option contracts rolling off today at 14.00 GMT:

    EURUSD: 1.1000 (EUR (301m) 1.1150-60 (230m) 1.1260-70 (235m) 1.1300 (229m)

    USDJPY: 110.00-10 (USD 1.3bln) 110.50 (487m) 110.80 (202m) 111.00-10 (765m) 111.50 (418m) 112.00 (332m)

    GBPUSD: 1.2825-35 (GBP 388m)

    EURGBP: 0.8600 (EUR 307m)

    AUDUSD: 0.7400 (AUD 305m) 0.7465-75 (546m) 0.7500 (232m)

    NZDUSD: 0.6900 (NZD 284m) 0.7000-10 (468m)

  • 08:19

    Euro area monetary aggregate M3 rose less than expected in March

    The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 decreased to 4.9% in April 2017, from 5.3% in March.

    The annual growth rate of the narrower aggregate M1, which includes currency in circulation and overnight deposits, stood at 9.2% in April, compared with 9.1% in March.

    The annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 2.4% in April, unchanged from the previous month.

    The annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations stood at 2.4% in April, compared with 2.3% in March.

  • 08:01

    Eurozone: Private Loans, Y/Y, April 2.4%

  • 08:01

    Eurozone: M3 money supply, adjusted y/y, March 4.9% (forecast 5.2%)

  • 07:00

    South Korea's military confirmed that the North tested a new missile off the Korean coast @CNBC

  • 06:50

    Fed funds futures imply traders see 88 pct chance Fed raising rates at june 13-14 meeting vs 83 pct prior to data release

  • 06:37

    UK Prime Minister May says G7 clear that Russia and Iran must push for Syria ceasefire

    • G7 agreed to increase pressure on North Korea

    • Vital do more with international partners to step up returns of foreign fighters

    • The Manchester attacker's connections with Libya shed light on that country

    • Talking about labour leader Corbyn's comments on Manchester bombing, says there can never ever be an excuse for terrorism

    • Important internet companies recognise social responsibility and report some activities to the authorities

    • The United States is considering its position on climate change

    • Raised intelligence leaks over Manchester investigation with Trump

    • Metropolitan police has restarted the process of sharing information with U.S.

  • 06:33

    Trump told other G7 leaders that U.S. will treat other countries as they treat U.S. on trade - White House adviser

  • 06:12

    Trump's views on climate change "evolving", he will do what is best for United States - White House adviser Cohn

  • 06:11

    CFTC - speculators raise Cbot US 10-year treasury futures net long position by 122,491 contracts to 362,501 in week on May 23

  • 06:08

    Moody's, on Kuwait, says expects the country's nominal gdp to reach its pre-oil price shock level by 2021

    • Expects Kuwait's government debt to rise to about 34% of gdp by 2020

    • Outlook reflects view there are signs of govt's institutional capacity to effectively implement its fiscal and economic reform program

    • Long-term and short-term foreign-currency bond and deposit ceilings remain unchanged at aa2 and prime-1, respectively

  • 06:04

    Fed's Williams says underlying U.S. economic trend is very positive, confident economy continues to grow

    • While there's been soft inflation data in the past couple of months, medium-term trend still pretty favourable

    • Says if there's pull-back in global trade integration, it will be pretty negative

    • It's his personal view that last thing the fed wants to do is roiling the market

    • Gradually raising rates will prevent U.S. economy from overheating

    • Last thing Fed wants to do is fuel unnecessary volatility or disruption

  • 04:56

    Options levels on monday, May 29, 2017

    EUR/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.1332 (4991)

    $1.1268 (5627)

    $1.1226 (5558)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.1163

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.1122 (1810)

    $1.1095 (1732)

    $1.1063 (2317)

    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 81559 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1000 (5969);

    - Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 101770 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0700 (5492);

    - The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.25 versus 1.24 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 26

    GBP/USD

    Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

    $1.3101 (3105)

    $1.3003 (3992)

    $1.2905 (2108)

    Price at time of writing this review: $1.2826

    Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

    $1.2694 (2107)

    $1.2597 (1611)

    $1.2498 (1628)

    Comments:

    - Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 35834 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (3992);

    - Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 36351 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (3061);

    - The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.01 versus 1.04 from the previous trading day according to data from May, 26

    * - 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.

  • 00:17

    Currencies. Daily history for May 26’2017:

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

    EUR/USD $1,1180 -0,24%

    GBP/USD $1,2805 -1,02%

    USD/CHF Chf0,9743 +0,16%

    USD/JPY Y111,31 -0,45%

    EUR/JPY Y124,45 -0,70%

    GBP/JPY Y142,53 -1,47%

    AUD/USD $0,7444 -0,12%

    NZD/USD $0,7063 +0,68%

    USD/CAD C$1,3449 -0,28%

  • 00:05

    Schedule for today, Monday, May 29’2017 (GMT0)

    00:01 China Bank holiday

    00:01 United Kingdom Bank holiday

    00:01 U.S. Bank holiday

    06:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index, y/y May 2.6%

    06:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index May -0.4%

    08:00 Eurozone Private Loans, Y/Y April 2.4%

    08:00 Eurozone M3 money supply, adjusted y/y March 5.3% 5.2%

    13:00 Eurozone ECB President Mario Draghi Speaks

    15:00 Eurozone ECB President Mario Draghi Speaks

    22:45 New Zealand Building Permits, m/m April -1.8%

    23:30 Japan Household spending Y/Y April -1.3% -0.7%

    23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate April 2.8% 2.8%

    23:50 Japan Retail sales, y/y April 2.1% 2.3%

29 May 2017
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