Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 19-07-2017.

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

EUR/USD $1,1516 -0,32%

GBP/USD $1,3021 -0,10%

USD/CHF Chf0,95502 +0,07%

USD/JPY Y111,87 -0,15%

EUR/JPY Y128,85 -0,47%

GBP/JPY Y145,687 -0,29%

AUD/USD $0,7951 +0,49%

NZD/USD $0,7355 +0,16%

USD/CAD C$1,26006 -0,20%

01:30 Australia Changing the number of employed June 42.0 15

01:30 Australia Unemployment rate June 5.5% 5.6%

03:00 Japan BoJ Interest Rate Decision -0.1% -0.1%

03:00 Japan BoJ Monetary Policy Statement

04:30 Japan All Industry Activity Index, m/m May 2.1%

05:00 Japan BOJ Outlook Report

06:00 Germany Producer Price Index (YoY) June 2.8% 2.3%

06:00 Germany Producer Price Index (MoM) June -0.2% -0.1%

06:00 Switzerland Trade Balance June 3.4 2.89

06:30 Japan BOJ Press Conference

08:00 Eurozone Current account, unadjusted, bln May 21.5

08:30 United Kingdom Retail Sales (YoY) June 0.9% 2.6%

08:30 United Kingdom Retail Sales (MoM) June -1.2% 0.4%

11:45 Eurozone Deposit Facilty Rate -0.4% -0.4%

11:45 Eurozone ECB Interest Rate Decision 0% 0%

12:30 Eurozone ECB Press Conference

12:30 U.S. Continuing Jobless Claims 1945 1950

12:30 U.S. Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey July 27.6 24

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims 247 245

14:00 Eurozone Consumer Confidence (Preliminary) July -1.3 -1.1

14:00 U.S. Leading Indicators June 0.3% 0.4%

22:45 New Zealand Visitor Arrivals June 8.0%

• Says time to rebalance trade and investment relationship with China in fair, balanced manner

• Must rebalance trade by selling more 'made in America' goods to China

EURUSD: 1.1300 (EUR 500m) 1.1400 (880m) 1.1450 (410m) 1.1475 (500m) 1.1500 (710m) 1.1600 (525m)

USDJPY: 110.30 (USD 500m) 112.25 (460m) 112.50 (440m)

GBPUSD: 1.2800 (GBP 375m)

EURGBP: 0.8764 (1.1bln)

EURJPY: 129.50 (EUR 690m) 130.00 (515m)

Manufacturing sales increased for the third consecutive month, up 1.1% to $54.6 billion in May. The gain was mainly attributable to higher sales in the transportation equipment and chemical manufacturing industries.

Sales were up in 16 of 21 industries, representing 71% of the manufacturing sector. Sales of durable goods rose 2.2%, while sales of non-durable goods declined 0.3%.

In constant dollars, sales were up 1.1%, indicating that higher volumes of manufactured goods were sold in May.

Sales in the transportation equipment industry rose 4.2% to $11.5 billion in May, the third gain in four months. The growth was the result of increases in the motor vehicle (+8.6%) and the motor vehicle parts (+5.7%) industries, mainly reflecting higher volumes. After removing the effect of price changes, sales in volume terms rose 8.1% and 5.0% respectively in these industries in May.

Privately-owned housing units authorized by building permits in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,254,000. This is 7.4 percent above the revised May rate of 1,168,000 and is 5.1 percent above the June 2016 rate of 1,193,000. Single-family authorizations in June were at a rate of 811,000; this is 4.1 percent above the revised May figure of 779,000. Authorizations of units in buildings with five units or more were at a rate of 409,000 in June.

Privately-owned housing starts in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,215,000. This is 8.3 percent above the revised May estimate of 1,122,000 and is 2.1 percent above the June 2016 rate of 1,190,000. Single-family housing starts in June were at a rate of 849,000; this is 6.3 percent above the revised May figure of 799,000. The June rate for units in buildings with five units or more was 359,000.

• Gets 1 tick price tail at 2023 gilt sale

• Gets 0.2 basis point yield tail at 2023 gilt sale

• Britain's new business council will be attended by business leaders representing a range of sectors, particularly those likely to be most affected by Brexit - May's spokesman

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1636 (5255)

$1.1614 (1545)

$1.1601 (748)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1538

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1495 (452)

$1.1462 (873)

$1.1425 (1896)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 67597 contracts (according to data from July, 18) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1500 (5255);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3177 (3030)

$1.3152 (2233)

$1.3106 (1699)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3033

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2973 (361)

$1.2942 (378)

$1.2908 (1040)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 27362 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (3030);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 25151 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (2957);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.92 versus 0.93 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 18

* - 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.