Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 17-04-2017.

01:30 Australia RBA Meeting's Minutes

12:30 Canada Foreign Securities Purchases February 6.2

12:30 U.S. Housing Starts March 1288 1264

12:30 U.S. Building Permits March 1216 1245

13:00 U.S. FOMC Member Esther George Speaks

13:15 U.S. Capacity Utilization March 75.9% 76.1%

13:15 U.S. Industrial Production YoY March 0.4%

13:15 U.S. Industrial Production (MoM) March 0.1% 0.5%

16:30 Canada Gov Council Member Wilkins Speaks

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.0785 (1067)

$1.0735 (462)

$1.0703 (126)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.0620

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.0544 (762)

$1.0495 (1700)

$1.0435 (2782)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 54324 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1000 (4871);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 58301 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,0400 (5235);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.07 versus 1.08 from the previous trading day according to data from April, 13

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2806 (1078)

$1.2709 (660)

$1.2613 (425)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2542

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2390 (752)

$1.2293 (807)

$1.2195 (723)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date June, 9 is 16228 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (1371);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date June, 9 is 18975 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (3063);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.17 versus 1.15 from the previous trading day according to data from April, 13

* - 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.

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

EUR/USD $ 1,0611 -0,04%

GBP/USD $ 1,2523 +0,14%

USD/CHF Chf1,0053 +0,01%

USD/JPY Y108,58 -0,52%

EUR/JPY Y115,29 -0,48%

GBP/JPY Y136,02 -0,33%

AUD/USD $0,7577 +0,13%

NZD/USD $0,7004 +0,06%

USD/CAD C$1,3324 -0,05%

02:00 China Retail Sales y/y March 9.5% 9.6%

02:00 China Industrial Production y/y March 6.3% 6.3%

02:00 China Fixed Asset Investment March 8.9% 8.8%

02:00 China GDP y/y Quarter I 6.8% 6.8%

06:00 United Kingdom Bank holiday

06:00 France Bank holiday

06:00 Germany Bank Holiday

06:00 Switzerland Bank holiday

12:30 U.S. NY Fed Empire State manufacturing index April 16.4 15

14:00 U.S. NAHB Housing Market Index April 71 70

20:00 U.S. Total Net TIC Flows February 110.4

20:00 U.S. Net Long-term TIC Flows February 6.3