Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 16-11-2017.

00:30 Australia New Motor Vehicle Sales (YoY) October -0.8%

00:30 Australia New Motor Vehicle Sales (MoM) October -0.5%

08:30 Eurozone ECB President Mario Draghi Speaks

09:00 Eurozone Current account, unadjusted, bln September 29.6 30.2

10:00 Eurozone Construction Output, y/y September 1.6%

13:30 Canada Bank of Canada Consumer Price Index Core, y/y October 0.8%

13:30 Canada Consumer price index, y/y October 1.6% 1.4%

13:30 Canada Consumer Price Index m / m October 0.2% 0.1%

13:30 U.S. Housing Starts October 1127 1180

13:30 U.S. Building Permits October 1225 1240

18:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count November 738

Manufacturing sales rose 0.5% to $53.7 billion in September, reflecting higher sales in the petroleum and coal product industry.

Overall, sales were up in 7 of 21 industries, representing 28.9% of the Canadian manufacturing sector. Sales of non-durable goods rose 1.7% to $25.4 billion, while sales of durable goods decreased 0.5% to $28.4 billion.

In constant dollars, sales increased 0.7%, indicating that higher volumes of manufactured goods were sold in September.

The index for utilities rose 2.0 percent, but mining output fell 1.3 percent, as Hurricane Nate caused a sharp but short-lived decline in oil and gas drilling and extraction. Even so, industrial activity was boosted in October by a return to normal operations after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma suppressed production in August and September.

Excluding the effects of the hurricanes, the index for total output advanced about 0.3 percent in October, and the index for manufacturing advanced about 0.2 percent.

With modest upward revisions for July through September, industrial production is now estimated to have only edged down 0.3 percent at an annual rate in the third quarter; the previously published estimate showed a decrease of 1.5 percent.

Total industrial production has risen 2.9 percent over the past 12 months; output in October was 106.1 percent of its 2012 average. Capacity utilization for the industrial sector was 77.0 percent, a rate that is 2.9 percentage points below its long-run (1972-2016) average.

In the week ending November 11, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 249,000, an increase of 10,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 239,000. The 4-week moving average was 237,750, an increase of 6,500 from the previous week's unrevised average of 231,250.

EURUSD: 1.1600 (EUR 1.03bln) 1.1660 (1.12bln) 1.1700 (940m) 1.1775-80 (590m) 1.1795-00(915m) 1.1815-25 (4.8bln) 1.1900 (730m)

USDJPY: 111.50 (915m) 112.00 (890m) 112.15 (360m) 112.25 (330m) 112.45-50(1.1bln) 112.95-00 ($580m) 113.10 ($405m) 113.50 (1.27bln) 113.90-00 (1.5bln)

GBPUSD: 1.3195 (GBP 395m)

USDCHF: 0.9800 (USD 400m) 0.9975 (305m) 1.0000 (605m)

AUDUSD:0.7625-30 (AUD 600m)

NZDUSD: 0.6900 (NZD 365m)

• There still appears to be a disconnect between growth and inflation

• Could raise growth forecast in dec

• Would not be right for market to expect increase in asset buys

• Need to minimise market distortions

• Toolbox not limited to asset buys

• Normlisation will be gradual

Euro area annual inflation was 1.4% in October 2017, down from 1.5% in September. In October 2016, the rate was 0.5%. European Union annual inflation was 1.7% in October 2017, down from 1.8% in September. A year earlier the rate was 0.5%. These figures come from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The lowest annual rates were registered in Cyprus (0.4%), Ireland, Greece and Finland (all 0.5%). The highest annual rates were recorded in Lithuania (4.2%), Estonia (4.0%) and the United Kingdom (3.0%). Compared with September 2017, annual inflation fell in fourteen Member States, remained stable in five and rose in nine.

The largest upward impacts to the euro area annual inflation came from fuels for transport (+0.10 percentage points), accommodation services (+0.08 pp) and milk, cheese & eggs (+0.06 pp), while telecommunication (-0.11 pp), garments (-0.07 pp) and social protection (-0.04 pp) had the biggest downward impacts.

The underlying pattern in the retail industry in October 2017, as suggested by the three-month on three-month measure is one of growth, with the quantity bought increasing by 0.9%.

The quantity bought in October 2017 increased by 0.3% compared with September 2017; non-food stores, in particular second-hand goods stores (charity shops, auction houses, antiques and fine art dealers) provided the largest contribution to this growth.

The longer-term picture as shown by the year-on-year growth rate shows the quantity bought fell by 0.3% in comparison with a strong October 2016; food stores provided the largest contribution to this fall.

Average store prices increased by 3.1% compared with October 2016, with the largest contribution from food stores where average prices rose by 3.5%, the largest year-on-year price increase since September 2013.

Online sales values increased year-on-year by 10.7%, accounting for approximately 16.9% of all retail spending.

EUR/USD: 1.1600(1.03 b), 1.1659(1.12 b), 1.1700(938 m) 1.1775-80(589 m), 1.1795-00(914 m), 1.1815-25(4.8 b), 1.1900(726 m)

GBP/USD: 1.3195(394 m)

USD/JPY: 111.50(911 m), 112.00(890 m), 112.15(360 m), 112.25(330 m) 112.45-50(1.09 b), 112.95-00(578 m), Y113.10(401 m), 113.50(1.27 b) 113.90-00(1.5 b)

USD/CHF: 0.9800(400 m), 0.9975(305 m), 1.0000(604 m)

AUD/USD: 0.7625-30(596 m)

NZD/USD: 0.6900-10(365 m)

EUR/JPY: 133.00(940 m)

AUD/NZD: 1.1100(2.34 b)

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1881 (7231)

$1.1860 (3157)

$1.1832 (3833)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1778

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1754 (1610)

$1.1731 (1868)

$1.1703 (3060)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date December, 8 is 155265 contracts (according to data from November, 15) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (8467);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3248 (1376)

$1.3218 (782)

$1.3189 (616)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3151

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3123 (1145)

$1.3105 (1134)

$1.3083 (1348)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date December, 8 is 40893 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3200 (3141);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date December, 8 is 40647 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (4713);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.99 versus 0.99 from the previous trading day according to data from November, 15

* - 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.

• Government, businesses recognise important to have at least Brexit transition

Trend estimates (monthly change):

• Employment increased 20,000 to 12,301,200.

• Unemployment decreased 3,000 to 709,400.

• Unemployment rate remained steady at 5.5%.

• Participation rate remained steady at 65.2%.

• Monthly hours worked in all jobs increased 3.5 million hours (0.2%) to 1,720.3 million hours.

Seasonally adjusted estimates (monthly change):

• Employment increased 3,700 to 12,297,100. Full-time employment increased 24,300 to 8,425,400 and part-time employment decreased 20,700 to 3,871,700.

• Unemployment decreased 8,100 to 701,500. The number of unemployed persons looking for full-time work remained steady at 485,900 and the number of unemployed persons only looking for part-time work decreased 8,100 to 215,600.

• Unemployment rate decreased 0.1 pts to 5.4%.

• Participation rate decreased 0.1 pts to 65.1%.

• Monthly hours worked in all jobs increased 4.6 million hours (0.3%) to 1,723.7 million hours.