Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 02-08-2017.

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

EUR/USD $1,1853 +0,41%

GBP/USD $1,3224 +0,13%

USD/CHF Chf0,96972 +0,48%

USD/JPY Y110,72 +0,33%

EUR/JPY Y131,26 +0,74%

GBP/JPY Y146,433 +0,47%

AUD/USD $0,7965 -0,03%

NZD/USD $0,7428 -0,55%

USD/CAD C$1,25644 +0,21%

01:30 Australia Trade Balance June 2.471 1.8

01:45 China Markit/Caixin Services PMI July 51.6

07:50 France Services PMI (Finally) July 56.9 55.9

07:55 Germany Services PMI (Finally) July 54 53.5

08:00 Eurozone Services PMI (Finally) July 55.4 55.4

08:00 Eurozone ECB Economic Bulletin

08:30 United Kingdom Purchasing Manager Index Services July 53.4 53.6

09:00 Eurozone Retail Sales (MoM) June 0.4% 0.1%

09:00 Eurozone Retail Sales (YoY) June 2.6% 2.6%

11:00 United Kingdom BOE Inflation Letter

11:00 United Kingdom Asset Purchase Facility 435 435

11:00 United Kingdom BoE Interest Rate Decision 0.25% 0.25%

11:00 United Kingdom Bank of England Minutes

11:30 United Kingdom BOE Gov Mark Carney Speaks

12:30 U.S. Continuing Jobless Claims 1964 1960

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims 244 242

13:45 U.S. Services PMI (Finally) July 54.2 54.2

14:00 U.S. ISM Non-Manufacturing July 57.4 57

14:00 U.S. Factory Orders June -0.8% 2.9%

EURUSD: 1.1600 (EUR 480m) 1.1750 (380m)

USDJPY: None of note

GBPUSD: 1.2900 (GBP 435m)

AUDUSD: 0.8000 (AUD 940m)

NZDUSD: 0.7400 (NZD 200m) 0.7500 (340m)

AUDNZD: 1.1000 (AUD 1.1bn)

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1917 (4166)

$1.1884 (3733)

$1.1861 (4871)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1826

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1770 (1665)

$1.1735 (1757)

$1.1693 (2769)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 102359 contracts (according to data from August, 1) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1800 (4871);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3292 (1735)

$1.3268 (2601)

$1.3244 (3054)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3210

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3163 (138)

$1.3128 (1025)

$1.3087 (1031)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 32128 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (3054);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 31665 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (3023);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.99 versus 0.97 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 1

* - 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.