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23:30
Schedule for today, Thursday, December 27, 2018
Time Country Event Period Previous value Forecast 05:00 Japan Housing Starts, y/y November 0.3% -0.4% 05:00 Japan Construction Orders, y/y November -16.5% 09:00 Eurozone ECB Economic Bulletin 09:00 Switzerland Credit Suisse ZEW Survey (Expectations) December -42.3 13:30 U.S. Continuing Jobless Claims December 1688 13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims December 214 219 14:00 U.S. Housing Price Index, m/m October 0.2% 0.3% 15:00 U.S. New Home Sales November 0.544 0.56 15:00 U.S. Consumer confidence December 135.7 133.7 23:30 Japan Tokyo CPI ex Fresh Food, y/y December 1% 0.9% 23:30 Japan Tokyo Consumer Price Index, y/y December 0.8% 23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate November 2.4% 2.4% 23:50 Japan Retail sales, y/y November 3.5% 2.2% 23:50 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) November 2.9% -1.9% 23:50 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) November 4.2% -
20:50
Schedule for tomorrow, Thursday, December 27, 2018
Time Country Event Period Previous value Forecast 05:00 Japan Housing Starts, y/y November 0.3% -0.4% 05:00 Japan Construction Orders, y/y November -16.5% 09:00 Eurozone ECB Economic Bulletin 09:00 Switzerland Credit Suisse ZEW Survey (Expectations) December -42.3 13:30 U.S. Continuing Jobless Claims December 1688 13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims December 214 219 14:00 U.S. Housing Price Index, m/m October 0.2% 0.3% 15:00 U.S. New Home Sales November 0.544 0.56 15:00 U.S. Consumer confidence December 135.7 133.7 23:30 Japan Tokyo CPI ex Fresh Food, y/y December 1% 0.9% 23:30 Japan Tokyo Consumer Price Index, y/y December 0.8% 23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate November 2.4% 2.4% 23:50 Japan Retail sales, y/y November 3.5% 2.2% 23:50 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) November 2.9% -1.9% 23:50 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) November 4.2% -
14:59
U.S.: Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index, December -8 (forecast 16)
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14:00
U.S.: S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, y/y, October 5% (forecast 4.9%)
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06:46
Options levels on wednesday, December 26, 2018
EUR/USD
Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)
$1.1528 (1696)
$1.1513 (876)
$1.1498 (260)
Price at time of writing this review: $1.1407
Support levels (open interest**, contracts):
$1.1380 (3098)
$1.1339 (4617)
$1.1294 (5133)
Comments:
- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 67702 contracts (according to data from December, 24) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1650 (5874);
GBP/USD
Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)
$1.2829 (1506)
$1.2810 (575)
$1.2788 (227)
Price at time of writing this review: $1.2710
Support levels (open interest**, contracts):
$1.2660 (1478)
$1.2624 (2014)
$1.2583 (1890)
Comments:
- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date January, 7 is 36243 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3400 (3833);
- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date January, 7 is 33079 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2450 (2872);
- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.91 versus 0.91 from the previous trading day according to data from December, 24
* - 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.
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