Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 03-08-2017.

00:00 Japan Labor Cash Earnings, YoY June 0.7% 0.6%

01:30 Australia Retail Sales, M/M June 0.6% 0.2%

01:30 Australia RBA Monetary Policy Statement

06:00 Germany Factory Orders s.a. (MoM) June 1.0% 0.5%

12:30 Canada Trade balance, billions June -1.09 -1.35

12:30 Canada Unemployment rate July 6.5% 6.5%

12:30 Canada Employment July 45.3 10

12:30 U.S. Government Payrolls July 35

12:30 U.S. Average workweek July 34.5 34.5

12:30 U.S. Manufacturing Payrolls July 1 5

12:30 U.S. Private Nonfarm Payrolls July 187 180

12:30 U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate July 62.8%

12:30 U.S. Average hourly earnings July 0.2% 0.3%

12:30 U.S. International Trade, bln June -46.5 -45

12:30 U.S. Unemployment Rate July 4.4% 4.3%

12:30 U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls July 222 183

14:00 Canada Ivey Purchasing Managers Index July 61.6 59.2

17:00 U.S. Baker Hughes Oil Rig Count August 766

EURUSD: 1.1595-1.1600 (EUR 770m) 1.1650 (330m) 1.1685-95 (430m) 1.1800 (355m) 1.1855-65 (335m)

USDJPY: 109.00 (USD 395m) 110.00-10 (1.02bln) 110.70 (480m) 111.50 (420m) 111.75-80 ($1.02bln) 112.10-15 (635m)

GBPUSD: 1.3250 (GBP 250m)

AUDUSD: 0.7700 (AUD 445m) 0.7800 (428m)

AUDNZD: 1.1000 (AUD 1.8bn)

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1968 (1533)

$1.1936 (2360)

$1.1901 (4837)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1843

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1788 (2179)

$1.1744 (1526)

$1.1696 (3482)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 103716 contracts (according to data from August, 2) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1800 (4837);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3296 (1762)

$1.3276 (2601)

$1.3256 (2966)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3226

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.3173 (527)

$1.3136 (1065)

$1.3093 (1040)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date August, 4 is 32925 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3100 (2966);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date August, 4 is 32794 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (3023);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.00 versus 0.99 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 2

* - 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.