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Friday, May 31, 2013

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May 31, 2013


FXBriefs European Wrap… all rather ‘risk off’ into the month-end following Visco’s comments


MPC’s Posen says BOJ is doing the right thing


ECB’s Visco says ECB’s ready to intervene again on rates, will consider all measures to maintain current credit conditions.


UK April Mortgage approvals 53,710


Italian adjusted April unemployment 12%


EU Commissioner Rehn- EU states must use their extensions to implement structural reforms


Today’s orderboard


ECB’s Kranjec- Eurozone still in crisis and it’ll take time to get out of it


Swiss May KOF leading indicator rises to 1.10


German retail sales fall -0.4% m/m in April, but rise 1.8% y/y


ITO sees room for yen to fall to 110.00


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Eurozone unemployment rate april: 12.2% vs 12.2% exp

Posted: 31 May 2013 02:00 AM PDT

  • 12.1% prev

Eurozone inflation flash april: y/y 1.4 % vs 1.4% exp

Posted: 31 May 2013 02:00 AM PDT

  • 1.2% prev

May Italian CPI 1.2% vs 1.2% exp y/y

Posted: 31 May 2013 02:00 AM PDT

  • Prior 1.1%
  • m/m 0.1% vs  0.1% exp. Prior 0.0%
  • CPI (EU norm) y/y 1.3% vs 1.4% exp. Prior 1.3%
  • EU norm m/m 0.0% vs 0.1% exp. Prior 0.3%

Nikkei futures dominate again as USDJPY falls through 100.50

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:43 AM PDT

Key level now breached followed by a quick run down to 100.30 as stops were triggered adding weight to pressure  on other pairs

Nikkei futures getting slapped again

More support seen at 100.20 and 100.00. A move below 99.80 has to freak out some yen bears surely

ECB’s Visco says ECB ready to intervene again on rates

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:37 AM PDT

That’ll be why we’re seeing the drop.

  • Urges common eurozone budget, financial support for reforms in member states and suggests joint debt issuance on a trial basis.
  • Italian banks are at risk of being in difficulty due to sovereign debt crisis
  • Some Italian bank shareholders must be ready to dilute stakes and accept mergers.
  • Says Italy reforms have slackened in past year.

Not painting a very good picture is he?

April UK M4 Money supply +0.3% vs -0.9% prior m/m

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:30 AM PDT

  • Y/Y vs 0.3% prior

April UK Consumer credit 0.524bn vs 0.4bn exp

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:30 AM PDT

  • Prior  0.5bn. Revised to 0.594bn
  • Mortgage lending 0.875bn vs 0.5bn exp. Prior 0.4bn. Revised to 0.473bn
  • Mortgage approvals 53.71k vs 54.5k exp. Prior 53.5k. Revised to 53.67k

A tick up in lending with mortgage lending seeing a decent increase even with mortgage approvals dropping.

CHF and CAD orders

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:14 AM PDT

Morning all.

USD/CHF

Offers: 0.9570, 0.9600, 0.9635, 0.9640

Bids: 0.9520, 0.9500 with stops below

USD/CAD

Offers: 1.0360, 1.0370

Bids: 1.0290, 1.0285, 1.0270

EUR/CHF

Offers: 1.2460, 1.2465, 1.2480

Bids: 1.2420, 1.2400 stops below

 

Itlalian unemployment rate april: 12% vs 11.6% exp

Posted: 31 May 2013 01:01 AM PDT

  • 11.5% prev

Ouch.

EURUSD a little higher at  1.3040 though

AUDUSD pops 0.9600

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:45 AM PDT

I warned of pressure on this pair just now

Buy orders at 0.9620 and 0.9600 blitzed

Low post 0.9598  currently 0.9607

 

Yen buyers around driving all pairs lower

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:42 AM PDT

USDJPY testing 100.50 again after good names seen adding supply so far

EURJPY 130.95 from 130.86 lows  AUDJPY 96.54

EURUSD 1.3026   GBPUSD 1.5194  AUDUSD 0. 9600

Trading Ideas 31 May

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:19 AM PDT

As the session gets underway on a day that promises to give us a few thrills n spills let’s have your thoughts and ideas here to share with our wonderful  fellow ForexLive followers!

Reasons welcome as always

AUDUSD also under pressure at 0.9628

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:16 AM PDT

Down from 0.9685 Asian highs to test Asian lows of 0.9626

Support seen at 0.9620 and larger at 0.9600

Cable under early pressure at 1.5208

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:14 AM PDT

Down from session highs of 1.5240

Talk out there that the pound will not be benefitting from month-end flows and could be under pressure particularly vs commodity currencies

Stop-loss selling seen on GBPUSD below 1.5195. Low so far 1.5204. currently 1.5210

ECB’s Kranjec says Eurozone still in crisis

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:07 AM PDT

on the wires from Slovenia’s central bank governor Marko Kranjec

  • says will take some time yet for Eurzone to recover
  • Slovenia not out of the woods.. still has more to do
  • expects the external auditors to confirm Bank of Slovenia’s figures on non-performing loans are correct

EURUSD currently a little lower at 1.3035

 

European equity markets open lower overall

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:04 AM PDT

  • FTSE -0.1%
  • DAX -0.2%
  • CAC40 -0.1%
  • IBEX -0.1%
  • FTMIB +0.3%

Swiss KOF indicator may: 1.1 vs 1.08 exp

Posted: 31 May 2013 12:01 AM PDT

  • 1.02 prev

Not a game changer  USDCHF 0.9540  EURCHF 1.2435

 

French consumer spending april:m/m -0.3% vs -0.6% exp

Posted: 30 May 2013 11:48 PM PDT

  • +1.3% prev

A weaker collection of data but euro shrugging it off  EURUSD 1.3042

French producer prices april: -0.9% vs -0.2% exp

Posted: 30 May 2013 11:46 PM PDT

  • 0.0% prev
  • y/y +0.6%

EURUSD orders

Posted: 30 May 2013 11:45 PM PDT

A quiet start to the day but it’s month-end so we should allow for all scenarios!  currently 1.3038

Sellers  1.3060,1.3070,1.3080,1.3100,1.3120,1.3130,1.3150,1.3190,1.3200

Buyers 1.3030,1.3020,1.3000,1.2980,1.2950,1.2930,1.2910,1.2900

eurusd orders 31 may