Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 01-08-2017.

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

EUR/USD $1,1804 -0,25%

GBP/USD $1,3206 +0,00%

USD/CHF Chf0,96508 -0,16%

USD/JPY Y110,36 +0,11%

EUR/JPY Y130,29 -0,15%

GBP/JPY Y145,752 +0,11%

AUD/USD $0,7968 -0,40%

NZD/USD $0,7469 -0,53%

USD/CAD C$1,25375 +0,41%

01:30 Australia Building Permits, m/m June -5.6% 1.5%

05:00 Japan Consumer Confidence July 43.3

05:45 Switzerland SECO Consumer Climate Quarter III -8

07:15 Switzerland Retail Sales Y/Y June -0.3%

07:15 Switzerland Retail Sales (MoM) June 0.3%

07:30 Switzerland Manufacturing PMI July 60.1

08:30 United Kingdom PMI Construction July 54.8 54

09:00 Eurozone Producer Price Index (YoY) June 3.3% 2.4%

09:00 Eurozone Producer Price Index, MoM June -0.4% -0.1%

12:15 U.S. ADP Employment Report July 158 190

14:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories July -7.208

16:00 U.S. FOMC Member Mester Speaks

19:30 U.S. FOMC Member Williams Speaks

23:30 Australia AIG Services Index July 54.8

EURUSD: 1.1500 (EUR 1.05bln ) 1.1550 (335m) 1.1600 (1.1bln) 1.1750 (635m) 1.1800 (975m)

USDJPY: 110.00 (USD 575m) 110.55-60 (560m)

AUDUSD: 0.7675 (AUD 280m)

AUDNZD: 1.0640 (AUD 480m) 1.0660 (270m)

USDCAD: 1.2500 (USD 245m) 1.2625 (470m)

EURJPY: 129.00 (EUR 280m)

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1902 (3379)

$1.1883 (4875)

$1.1866 (2454)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1815

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1777 (1155)

$1.1738 (1101)

$1.1694 (2554)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 99754 contracts (according to data from July, 31) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1800 (4875);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3287 (1781)

$1.3262 (2598)

$1.3233 (3056)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3209

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3155 (126)

$1.3123 (995)

$1.3084 (696)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 31516 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (3056);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 30713 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (3027);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.97 versus 0.97 from the previous trading day according to data from July, 31

* - 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.