Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 30-01-2018.

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

EUR/USD $1,2401 +0,15%

GBP/USD $1,4148 +0,51%

USD/CHF Chf0,93398 -0,37%

USD/JPY Y108,77 -0,16%

EUR/JPY Y134,90 -0,01%

GBP/JPY Y153,898 +0,35%

AUD/USD $0,8084 -0,13%

NZD/USD $0,7330 +0,12%

USD/CAD C$1,23375 0,00%

00:01 United Kingdom Gfk Consumer Confidence January -13 -13

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, m/m December 0.5% 0.5%

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, y/y December 5.4%

00:30 Australia Trimmed Mean CPI y/y Quarter IV 1.8% 1.9%

00:30 Australia CPI, y/y Quarter IV 1.8% 2%

00:30 Australia CPI, q/q Quarter IV 0.6% 0.7%

00:30 Australia Trimmed Mean CPI q/q Quarter IV 0.4% 0.5%

01:00 China Non-Manufacturing PMI January 55.0 55.0

01:00 China Manufacturing PMI January 51.6 51.5

02:00 U.S. President Trump Speaks

05:00 Japan Construction Orders, y/y December 20.5%

05:00 Japan Housing Starts, y/y December -0.4% 1.2%

05:00 Japan Consumer Confidence January 44.7 44.9

07:00 Germany Retail sales, real adjusted December 2.3% -0.4%

07:00 Germany Retail sales, real unadjusted, y/y December 4.4% 2.8%

07:00 Switzerland UBS Consumption Indicator December 1.67

07:45 France CPI, m/m (Preliminary) January 0.3% -0.3%

07:45 France CPI, y/y (Preliminary) January 1.2%

08:55 Germany Unemployment Rate s.a. January 5.5% 5.5%

08:55 Germany Unemployment Change January -29 -17

09:00 Switzerland Credit Suisse ZEW Survey(Expectations) January 52.0

09:50 Eurozone ECB's Benoit Coeure Speaks

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI ex EFAT, Y/Y (Preliminary) January 0.9%

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI, Y/Y (Preliminary) January 1.4% 1.3%

10:00 Eurozone Unemployment Rate December 8.7% 8.7%

13:15 U.S. ADP Employment Report January 250 185

13:30 Canada Industrial Product Price Index, m/m December 1.4% -0.1%

13:30 Canada Industrial Product Price Index, y/y December 2.7%

13:30 Canada GDP (m/m) November 0.0% 0.4%

14:45 U.S. Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index January 67.6 64.1

15:00 U.S. Pending Home Sales (MoM) December 0.2% 0.4%

15:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories January -1.071 0.1

19:00 U.S. Fed Interest Rate Decision 1.5% 1.5%

19:00 U.S. FOMC Statement

22:30 Australia AIG Manufacturing Index January 56.2

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index increased in January, following a decline in December. The Index now stands at 125.4 (1985=100), up from 123.1 in December. The Present Situation Index decreased slightly, from 156.5 to 155.3, while the Expectations Index increased from 100.8 last month to 105.5 this month.

"Consumer confidence improved in January after declining in December," said Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board. "Consumers' assessment of current conditions decreased slightly, but remains at historically strong levels. Expectations improved, though consumers were somewhat ambivalent about their income prospects over the coming months, perhaps the result of some uncertainty regarding the impact of the tax plan. Overall, however, consumers remain quite confident that the solid pace of growth seen in late 2017 will continue into 2018."

The inflation rate in Germany as measured by the consumer price index is expected to be 1.6% in January 2018. Based on the results available so far, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that consumer prices are expected to decline by 0.7% compared with December 2017.

In January 2018, the harmonised index of consumer prices for Germany, which is calculated for European purposes, is expected to increase by 1.4% year on year and to decrease by 1.0% on December 2017.

Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.6% in both the euro area (EA19) and in the EU28 during the fourth quarter of 2017, compared with the previous quarter, according to a preliminary flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the third quarter of 2017, GDP had grown by 0.7% in both zones. Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 2.7% in the euro area and by 2.6% in the EU28 in the fourth quarter of 2017, after +2.8% in both zones in the previous quarter. Over the whole year 2017, GDP grew by 2.5% in both zones.

GBP/USD on the last weeks has been appreciating and passes the barrier close to the 1.41.

At this moment, we can see that the price is starting a correction its last movements.

However, it can be interesting to trade once the price starts to reject the zone which we mentioned on the chart (green retangle) in order to go long in this pair.

Therefore, our bias for this pair is long but of the price doesn't respect the fibonnaci levels and the upside trend line we can consider a short entries as well.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) generated by the Spanish economy registers a variation of 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to the previous quarter2 , according to advance estimate of the quarterly GDP. This rate is one tenth lower than that registered in the previous quarter. The variation of the GDP in the fourth quarter of 2017 with respect to the same quarter of the year The previous one stands at 3.1%, similar to the rate registered in the third quarter of the year.

In Q4 2017, GDP in volume terms increased again: +0.6%, after +0.5% in Q3. On average over the year, GDP accelerated markedly: +1.9% after +1.1% in 2016.

Total gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) accelerated slightly (+1.1% after +0.9%) while household consumption expenditure slowed down (+0.3% after +0.6%). Overall, final domestic demand excluding inventory changes contributed to GDP growth by +0.5 points in Q4 2017 (after +0.6 points).

Foreign trade balance contributed positively to GDP growth (+0.6 points after −0.5 points): exports accelerated markedly (+2.6% after +1.1%) while imports slowed down sharply (+0.7% after +2.4%). Conversely, changes in inventories contributed negatively (−0.5 points after +0.3 points).

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.2495 (2302)

$1.2460 (3574)

$1.2432 (5490)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2362

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2301 (1581)

$1.2266 (2261)

$1.2227 (3362)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date February, 9 is 132579 contracts (according to data from January, 29) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1850 (7037);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.4171 (1698)

$1.4142 (2243)

$1.4110 (3462)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.4009

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3964 (142)

$1.3933 (538)

$1.3899 (550)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date February, 9 is 44585 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3600 (3462);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date February, 9 is 41004 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3400 (3043);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.92 versus 0.89 from the previous trading day according to data from January, 29

* - 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 unemployment rate in Japan came in at a seasonally adjusted 2.8 percent in December, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said on Tuesday, cited by rttnews.

That was above expectations for 2.7 percent, which would have been unchanged.

The job-to-applicant ratio was 1.59, exceeding forecasts for 1.57 and up from 1.56 in the previous month.

The number of employed persons in December was 65.42 million, an increase of 520,000 or 0.8 percent on year.

• Goods exports rose $1.1 billion (26 percent) to $5.6 billion, a new high for monthly total exports. The previous high was $5.0 billion in March 2014.

• Goods imports rose $494 million (11 percent) to $4.9 billion.

• The monthly trade balance was a surplus of $640 million (12 percent of exports).

• In the last five December months, there were two surpluses (in 2012 and 2013), and three deficits (2014, 2015, and 2016).

• The December 2017 surplus was the largest in a December month, and the largest in any month since March 2015 ($661 million).

• Praises governor Kuroda's handling of BoJ policy

• Important that next governor continues "Abenomics" if not Kuroda

• Reflect country's monetary and fiscal policy flexibility, economic resilience, and public policy stability

• Stable outlook reflects view that fiscal performance to remain sound with slowly improving net debt ratio during next few years‍​