Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 27-02-2018.

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

EUR/USD $1,2233 -0,69%

GBP/USD $1,3908 -0,41%

USD/CHF Chf0,93891 +0,10%

USD/JPY Y107,32 +0,35%

EUR/JPY Y131,28 -0,34%

GBP/JPY Y149,27 -0,06%

AUD/USD $0,7788 -0,83%

NZD/USD $0,7233 -0,96%

USD/CAD C$1,27738 +0,71%

00:00 New Zealand ANZ Business Confidence January -37.8

00:01 United Kingdom Gfk Consumer Confidence February -9 -10

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, m/m January 0.3% 0.4%

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, y/y January 4.8%

01:00 China Non-Manufacturing PMI February 55.3 55.0

01:00 China Manufacturing PMI February 51.3 51.2

05:00 Japan Housing Starts, y/y January -2.1% -5%

05:00 Japan Construction Orders, y/y January -8.1%

07:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index February 0.6% 0.2%

07:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index, y/y February 3.2% 2.6%

07:00 Germany Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey March 11.0 10.9

07:00 Switzerland UBS Consumption Indicator January 1.69

07:45 France Consumer spending January -1.2% 0.4%

07:45 France CPI, y/y (Preliminary) February 1.3%

07:45 France CPI, m/m (Preliminary) February -0.1%

07:45 France GDP, q/q (Revised) Quarter IV 0.5% 0.6%

08:00 Switzerland KOF Leading Indicator February 106.9 106.1

08:55 Germany Unemployment Rate s.a. February 5.4% 5.4%

08:55 Germany Unemployment Change February -25 -15

09:00 Switzerland Credit Suisse ZEW Survey (Expectations) February 34.5

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI, Y/Y (Preliminary) February 1.3% 1.2%

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI ex EFAT, Y/Y (Preliminary) February 1%

13:30 Canada Industrial Product Price Index, m/m January -0.1% 0.5%

13:30 Canada Industrial Product Price Index, y/y January 2.2%

13:30 U.S. PCE price index, q/q (Revised) Quarter IV 1.5% 2.8%

13:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, q/q (Revised) Quarter IV 1.3% 1.9%

13:30 U.S. GDP, q/q (Revised) Quarter IV 3.2% 2.5%

14:45 U.S. Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index February 65.7 64.2

15:00 U.S. Pending Home Sales (MoM) January 0.5% 0.3%

15:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories February -1.616 2.675

22:30 Australia AIG Manufacturing Index February 58.7

23:50 Japan Capital Spending Quarter IV 4.2% 3.1%

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index increased in February, following a modest increase in January. The Index now stands at 130.8 (1985=100), up from 124.3 in January. The Present Situation Index increased from 154.7 to 162.4, while the Expectations Index improved from 104.0 last month to 109.7 this month.

U.S. house prices rose 1.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). House prices rose 6.7 percent from the fourth quarter of 2016 to the fourth quarter of 2017. FHFA's seasonally adjusted monthly index for December was up 0.3 percent from November.

The HPI is calculated using home sales price information from mortgages sold to, or guaranteed by, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

"Home price appreciation in the fourth quarter showed absolutely no letup throughout the U.S.," said Dr. Andrew Leventis, Deputy Chief Economist. "As we begin to evaluate home prices in the first quarter, we will monitor whether new headwinds - higher mortgage rates and changes in tax laws - will lead to any moderation in the rate of house price growth."

• Fed does not see recent tightening of financial conditions as weighing heavily on outlook for economy, jobs and inflation

• He finds monetary policy rules helpful

• Fed's balance sheet normalization program has been proceeding smoothly

• Financial conditions remain accommodative despite recent financial volatility

• Higher monthly inflation readings toward end of last year were consistent with view that shortfall was transitory

• Fed still sees some of last year's inflation shortfall as reflecting transitory influences not expected to be repeated

New orders for manufactured durable goods in January decreased $9.2 billion or 3.7 percent to $239.7 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This decrease, down following two consecutive monthly increases, followed a 2.6 percent December increase. Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 0.3 percent. Excluding defense, new orders decreased 2.7 percent. Transportation equipment, also down following two consecutive monthly increases, led the decrease, $8.6 billion or 10.0 percent to $77.7 billion.

The inflation rate in Germany as measured by the consumer price index is expected to be 1.4% in February 2018. Based on the results available so far, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the consumer prices are expected to increase by 0.5% on January 2018.

In February 2018, the harmonised index of consumer prices for Germany, which is calculated for European purposes, is expected to increase by 1.2% year on year and 0.5% on January 2018.

On daily time frame chart, we can see that Bitcoin is giving again signs of a possible new bullish trend after the last bearish month.

We can see on the chart that the price has rejected the fibonacci's levels 78.2% and the Moving Average (SMA 200).

Besides that, we also can see that the price has broken the downside trend line.

Therefore, we can expect a further bullish movement on BTC/USD.

The annual growth rate of the broad monetary aggregate M3 stood at 4.6% in January 2018, unchanged from the previous month.

The annual growth rate of the narrower aggregate M1, which includes currency in circulation and overnight deposits, increased to 8.9% in January, from 8.7% in December.

The annual growth rate of adjusted loans to households stood at 2.9% in January, unchanged from the previous month.

The annual growth rate of adjusted loans to non-financial corporations increased to 3.4% in January, from 3.1% in December.

• says that level of danish banks' problem loans will fall below 1.8% of gross loans in 2018, compared with a post-crisis peak of 4.3% in 2013

According to the flash estimate issued by the INE, the annual inflation of the CPI in February 2018 was 1.1%. This indicator provides a preview of the CPI that, if confirmed, would imply an increase of five tenths in the annual rate, since in January this change was 0.6%. This behaviour highlights the decrease in the prices of electricity compared to the decrease of prices of 2017.

In turn, the annual variation of the flash estimate of the HICP in February stands at 1.2%. If confirmed, the annual rate of the HICP would increase five tenths as compared to the previous month.

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2449 (3862)

$1.2420 (2374)

$1.2379 (2606)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2343

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2279 (6696)

$1.2257 (2159)

$1.2230 (5592)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date March, 9 is 131060 contracts (according to data from February, 26) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2400 (6696);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.4107 (2290)

$1.4077 (1875)

$1.4032 (3737)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3987

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3933 (1648)

$1.3897 (1800)

$1.3842 (2313)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date March, 9 is 52364 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3900 (3737);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date March, 9 is 48361 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3900 (2313);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.92 versus 0.95 from the previous trading day according to data from February, 26

* - 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.

The monthly trade balance was a deficit of $566 million (13 percent of exports).

The annual trade deficit was $3.2 billion in January 2018, up from $2.9 billion in December 2017, and down from $3.4 billion in January 2017.

Goods exports rose $373 million (9.5 percent) to $4.3 billion in January 2018. This was a new high for a January month, exceeding the previous high of $4.1 billion in January 2014. This record follows on from the all-time high of $5.5 billion for December 2017.

Milk powder, butter, and cheese led the rise, up $101 million (8.0 percent) to $1.4

Goods imports rose $713 million (17 percent) to $4.9 billion in January 2018.

The largest changes in import values were:

Mechanical machinery and equipment, which led the rise - up $133 million (23 percent) to $700 million. The increase was across a range of commodities, including turbo-jets and food processing machinery.

Petroleum and products rose $88 million, led by diesel (up $57 million) and motor spirit (up $24 million). Imports of these products from the Republic of Korea rose $113 million, led by diesel.

Ships, boats, and floating structures rose $78 million.billion.

• Says global growth risks heightened from trade disputes, technology change, monetary policy normalization