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

00:30 Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence August 96.6

01:30 Australia Home Loans June 1.0% 1.5%

01:30 China PPI y/y July 5.5% 5.5%

01:30 China CPI y/y July 1.5% 1.5%

06:00 Japan Prelim Machine Tool Orders, y/y July 31.1%

12:15 Canada Housing Starts July 212.7

12:30 Canada Building Permits (MoM) June 8.9%

12:30 U.S. Unit Labor Costs, q/q (Preliminary) Quarter II 2.2% 1.2%

12:30 U.S. Nonfarm Productivity, q/q (Preliminary) Quarter II 0% 0.7%

14:00 U.S. Wholesale Inventories June 0.4% 0.6%

14:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories August -1.527

17:00 U.S. FOMC Member Charles Evans Speaks

21:00 New Zealand RBNZ Interest Rate Decision 1.75% 1.75%

21:00 New Zealand RBNZ Rate Statement

22:00 New Zealand RBNZ Press Conference

23:50 Japan Core Machinery Orders June -3.6% 3.7%

23:50 Japan Core Machinery Orders, y/y June 0.6% -1%

EURUSD: 1.1650 (EUR 345m) 1.1800 (550m)

USDJPY: 109.00 (USD 300m) 110.25 (360m) 110.55-60 (360m) 111.00 (490m)

GBPUSD: 1.3000-05 (GBP 300m)

AUDUSD: 0.7950 (AUD 2.5bln)

AUDNZD: 1.0560 (AUD 480m) 1.0715-20 (345m)

EURJPY: 128.85-90 (EUR 405m)

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1924 (2570)

$1.1901 (1611)

$1.1868 (1718)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1803

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1741 (862)

$1.1720 (1197)

$1.1696 (2382)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date September, 8 is 115334 contracts (according to data from August, 7) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2000 (4828);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3217 (2858)

$1.3186 (1720)

$1.3136 (3052)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.3037

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2982 (928)

$1.2940 (1068)

$1.2882 (1970)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date September, 8 is 28304 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,3000 (3052);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date September, 8 is 24706 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2850 (2619);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 0.87 versus 0.90 from the previous trading day according to data from August, 7

* - 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.