Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 31-07-2017.

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

EUR/USD $1,1835 +0,75%

GBP/USD $1,3206 +0,56%

USD/CHF Chf0,96665 -0,18%

USD/JPY Y110,24 -0,38%

EUR/JPY Y130,48 +0,35%

GBP/JPY Y145,589 +0,16%

AUD/USD $0,7999 +0,19%

NZD/USD $0,7509 -0,06%

USD/CAD C$1,24861 +1,23%

00:30 Japan Manufacturing PMI (Finally) July 52.4 52.2

01:45 China Markit/Caixin Manufacturing PMI July 50.4 50.4

04:30 Australia Announcement of the RBA decision on the discount rate 1.5% 1.5%

04:30 Australia RBA Rate Statement

06:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index July 1.1% -0.1%

06:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index, y/y July 3.1% 2.7%

07:30 Switzerland Manufacturing PMI July 60.1

07:50 France Manufacturing PMI (Finally) July 54.8 55.4

07:55 Germany Manufacturing PMI (Finally) July 59.6 58.3

07:55 Germany Unemployment Change July 7

07:55 Germany Unemployment Rate s.a. July 5.7%

08:00 Eurozone Manufacturing PMI (Finally) July 57.4 56.8

08:30 United Kingdom Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing July 54.3 54.3

09:00 Eurozone GDP (YoY) (Preliminary) Quarter II 1.9% 2.1%

09:00 Eurozone GDP (QoQ) (Preliminary) Quarter II 0.6% 0.6%

12:30 U.S. Personal spending June 0.1% 0.1%

12:30 U.S. Personal Income, m/m June 0.4% 0.4%

12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, Y/Y June 1.4%

12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, m/m June 0.1% 0.1%

13:45 U.S. Manufacturing PMI (Finally) July 52 53.2

14:00 U.S. Construction Spending, m/m June 0% 0.3%

14:00 U.S. ISM Manufacturing July 57.8 56.5

19:00 U.S. Total Vehicle Sales, mln July 16.51 16.7

22:45 New Zealand Employment Change, q/q Quarter II 1.2% 0.7%

22:45 New Zealand Unemployment Rate Quarter II 4.9% 4.8%

EUR/USD: $1.1500(E1.35 млрд), $1.1650(E623 млн), $1.1700(E483 млн), $1.1750(E529 млн)

GBP/USD: $1.3145(Gbp307 млн)

USD/JPY: Y111.10-12($346 млн), Y111.25 ($300 млн), Y111.50($290 млн)

AUD/USD: $0.7900(A$890 млн)

NZD/USD: $0.7450(NZ$236 млн)

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1877 (3661)

$1.1845 (4976)

$1.1796 (3821)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1736

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1684 (1996)

$1.1642 (2015)

$1.1596 (4637)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 94370 contracts (according to data from July, 28) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1800 (4976);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3242 (2604)

$1.3216 (1684)

$1.3175 (2157)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3124

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3073 (522)

$1.3034 (475)

$1.2991 (946)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 30553 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (3076);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 29642 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (3050);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.97 versus 0.95 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 28

* - 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.