Analytics, News, and Forecasts for CFD Markets: currency news — 19-06-2017.

01:30 Australia House Price Index (QoQ) Quarter I 4.1%

01:30 Australia RBA Meeting's Minutes

05:45 Switzerland SECO Economic Forecasts

06:00 Germany Producer Price Index (MoM) May 0.4% -0.1%

06:00 Germany Producer Price Index (YoY) May 3.4% 2.9%

06:30 Switzerland SNB Chairman Jordan Speaks

07:30 United Kingdom BOE Gov Mark Carney Speaks

08:00 Eurozone Current account, unadjusted, bln April 44.8

08:45 Switzerland SNB Chairman Jordan Speaks

11:45 U.S. FOMC Member Rosengren Speaks

12:00 U.S. FOMC Member Richard Fisher Speaks

12:30 Canada Wholesale Sales, m/m April 0.9%

12:30 U.S. Current account, bln Quarter I -112.4 -125

19:00 U.S. FOMC Member Kaplan Speak

23:50 Japan Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes

EURUSD: 1.1045-50 (EUR 1.14bln) 1.1100 (455m) 1.1150-60 (1.17bln) 1.1250-60 (1.9bln) 1.1300 (630m) 1.1350 (270m)

USDJPY: 110.00 (USD 860m) 110.40-50 (700m) 110.80 (350m) 111.00 (800m) 115.15-25 (1.1bln) 112.00 (250m) 112.50 (560m)

EURGBP: 0.8860 ( EUR 402m) 0.8900 (275m)

AUDUSD: 0.7590 (AUD 2.2bln) 0.7665 (275m) 0.7700 (310m)

USDCAD: 1.3215 (USD 275m)

NZDUSD: 0.7150 (NZD 210m)

• "very confident" that there is "quite a long ways to go" in this economic expansion

• U.S. growth a position story but not well distributed across economy

• Expects to get 3 pct wage growth over next year or two

• Says backs free trade

EUR/USD

Offers: 1.1210 1.1230 1.1250 1.1270 1.1285 1.1300

Bids: 1.1180 1.1150 1.1130 1.1100 1.1080 1.1050 1.1030 1.1000

GBP/USD

Offers: 1.2810 1.2830 1.2850 1.2880 1.2900 1.2960 1.3000

Bids: 1.2770 1.2750 1.2730 1.2700 1.2680 1.2650 1.2630 1.2600-10

EUR/JPY

Offers: 124.50 124.80 125.00 125.30 125.50

Bids: 124.20 124.00 123.75 123.50 123.00 122.80 122.50

EUR/GBP

Offers: 0.8770 0.8785 0.8800 0.8820-25 0.8850-55

Bids: 0.8720 0.8700 0.8685 0.8650 0.8630 0.8600

USD/JPY

Offers: 111.30 111.50 111.65 111.80 112.00 112.30 112.50 112.80 113.00

Bids: 110.80 110.50 110.30 110.00 109.80109.50 109.20 109.00

AUD/USD

Offers: 0.7620 0.7635 0.7650 0.7680 0.7700 0.7750

Bids: 0.7590 0.7565 0.7550 0.75300.7500-05

• Will do all we can to deliver deal that works in best interests of all citizens

• Will talk in positive and constructive tone

• Proceeding with growth strategy, structural reforms key to revitalising economy

• Moscow worried by U.S. downing of Syria govt warplane, sees it as step to dangerous escalation

• Russia is warning the United States not to use force against syrian government forces

EURUSD: 1.1045-50 (EUR 1.14bln) 1.1100 (455m) 1.1150-60 (1.17bln) 1.1250-60 (1.9bln) 1.1300 (630m) 1.1350 (270m)

USDJPY: 110.00 (USD 860m) 110.40-50 (700m) 110.80 (350m) 111.00 (800m) 115.15-25 (1.1bln) 112.00 (250m) 112.50 (560m)

EURGBP: 0.8860 ( EUR 402m) 0.8900 (275m)

AUDUSD: 0.7590 (AUD 2.2bln) 0.7665 (275m) 0.7700 (310m)

USDCAD: 1.3215 (USD 275m)

NZDUSD: 0.7150 (NZD 210m)

• Japan economic growth momentum to continue in 2017, to weaken in 2018 if fiscal stimulus fades

• Japan near-term fiscal stimulus should be neutral in 2018, avoiding scheduled withdrawal of fiscal stimulus

• BoJ's continued accommodative stance needs to be accompanied by bold structural reform, credible fiscal consolidation plan

• Japan mid-term fiscal plan should place emphasis on gradual sales tax hikes, starting as soon as possible, to at least 15 pct

• Hopes libyans go back to normal production levels which they fully deserve

• Compliance in april and may to OPEC cuts agreement was above 100 percent

Japan had a merchandise trade deficit of 203.367 billion yen in May, the Ministry of Finance, cited by rttnes.

That missed forecasts for a surplus of 43.3 billion yen following the 481.7 billion yen surplus in April.

Exports were up 14.9 percent on year, shy of expectations for a gain of 16.0 percent following the 7.5 percent gain in the previous month.

Imports climbed an annual 17.8 percent versus expectations for 14.5 percent and up from 15.1 percent a month earlier.

An interesting feature of this quarter's survey are households' attitudes regarding debt. Each quarter, we ask households what they would do if they received a windfall of $10,000. In June the number of households who said they would use these funds for savings or paying down debt actually fell. In fact, the proportion of households who are focusing on savings/debt repayment has only been this low once before in the 19 years that we've been asking them about it. This quarter's fall is all the more surprising given the rises in interest rates since late last year, and may be a by-product of the increased confidence in the economic outlook.

EUR/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.1354 (2371)

$1.1308 (3131)

$1.1262 (2668)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.1195

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.1132 (3217)

$1.1087 (7833)

$1.1041 (2185)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options and PUT options with the expiration date July, 7 is 66812 contracts (according to data from June, 16) with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,1100 (7833);

GBP/USD

Resistance levels (open interest**, contracts)

$1.3099 (549)

$1.2999 (438)

$1.2901 (656)

Price at time of writing this review: $1.2774

Support levels (open interest**, contracts):

$1.2689 (3568)

$1.2591 (1259)

$1.2493 (1832)

Comments:

- Overall open interest on the CALL options with the expiration date July, 7 is 27579 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2800 (2365);

- Overall open interest on the PUT options with the expiration date July, 7 is 27462 contracts, with the maximum number of contracts with strike price $1,2700 (3568);

- The ratio of PUT/CALL was 1.00 versus 1.33 from the previous trading day according to data from June, 16

* - 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.