The number of job openings was little changed at 6.1 million on the last business day of August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month, hires and separations were also little changed at 5.4 million and 5.2 million, respectively. Within separations, the quits rate and the layoffs
and discharges rate were little changed at 2.1 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the nonfarm sector by industry and by four geographic regions.

The number of hires was little changed at 5.4 million in August. The hires rate was 3.7 percent. The number of hires was little changed for total private and for government. The number of hires was little changed in all industries. Hires decreased in the Northeast region.

• We share the need for catalan leader to clarify position

EURUSD: 1.1710 (EUR 625m) 1.1740-45 (310m) 1.1770 (480m) 1.1825-30 (540m) 1.1850 (335m) 1.2030 (335m)

USDJPY: 110.00 (USD 800m) 111.00 (480m) 112.80 (1.3bln) 113.00 (640m)

GBPUSD: Ntg of note

AUDUSD: Ntg of note

USDCAD: 1.2200 (USD 750m) 1.2650 (255m) 1.2800 (450m)

• We need to see substantial progress on inflation data

• It is important to position ourselves for the next several years with regards to monetary policy

• Not enough detail on tax proposals to judge how they will affect U.S. economy and monetary policy

• This requirement comes before any other measure that could be taken under article 155 of the constitution

• Money spent on customs border with eu would be money that could not be spent on public services

• Do not propose to allocate brexit funds to departments before spending is needed

• UK does have fundamental underlying problem with productivity growth

• UK economy fundamentally robust but has 'cloud of uncertainty' that we need to remove as soon as possible

EUR/USD: 1.1850(335 m), 1.1825-30(540 m), 1.1770(480 m)

USD/JPY: 113.00(640 m), 112.80(128 m), 111(475 m)

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1971 (3422)

$1.1919 (2894)

$1.1873 (403)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1825

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1776 (2253)

$1.1728 (2635)

$1.1698 (3107)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date November, 3 is 92366 contracts (according to data from October, 10) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (5478);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3335 (3269)

$1.3297 (2232)

$1.3253 (1050)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3192

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3141 (1903)

$1.3092 (1064)

$1.3063 (2140)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date November, 3 is 34161 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3300 (3270);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date November, 3 is 31125 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (2191);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.91 versus 0.94 from the previous trading day according to data from October, 10

* - 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.

Core machine orders in Japan jumped a seasonally adjusted 3.4 percent on month in August, the Cabinet Office said on Wednesday, cited by rttnews, - coming in at 882.4 billion yen.

That beat forecasts for an increase of 1.0 percent following the 8.0 percent spike in July.

On a yearly basis, core machine orders advanced 4.4 percent - again beating expectations for a gain of 0.8 percent following the 7.5 percent decline in the previous month.

The total value of machine orders, which includes volatile ones for ships and electric power companies, added 8.5 percent on month and 21.5 percent on year to 2,583.9 billion yen.

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

EUR/USD $1,1808 +0,57%

GBP/USD $1,3202 +0,46%

USD/CHF Chf0,9749 -0,47%

USD/JPY Y112,37 -0,25%

EUR/JPY Y132,69 +0,31%

GBP/JPY Y148,348 +0,21%

AUD/USD $0,7778 +0,33%

NZD/USD $0,7069 +0,18%

USD/CAD C$1,25147 -0,28%