{"id":14942,"date":"2015-10-12T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=14942"},"modified":"2015-10-12T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:20:52","slug":"monday-12th-october-european-open-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/monday-12th-october-european-open-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 12th October: European Open Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\n\t<strong>Global Markets:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tAsian stock markets: Shanghai up 2.40 %, Hang Seng rose 1.25 %, ASX fell 0.70 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCommodities: Gold at $1157.80 (+1.20 %), Silver at $15.83 (+0.40 %), WTI Oil at $50.00 (+1.15 %), Brent Oil at $53.25 (+0.60 %)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRates: US 10 year yield at 2.09, UK 10 year yield at 1.86, German 10 year yield at 0.614\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tNew Zealand REINZ House Sales (YoY) Sep: 38.3% (prev 41.7%)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t&nbsp;Swiss Central Bank Sees Low Risk Of Downward Wage &amp; Price Spiral &#8212; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tOPEC Sec-Gen Al Badri Sees Oil Demand Growth, Hopeful For Market Balance In 2016 &#8212; BBG\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>CFTC Positioning Data:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tEUR short 89K vs 88k short prior week.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tGBP short 4K vs. 2K short prior week\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJPY short 18K vs. 22K short prior week.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCAD short 35K vs. 42K short prior week.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCHF short 4K vs 3K short prior week.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAUD short 41K vs. 49K short prior week\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNZD short 1K vs. 3K short prior week\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tIt was a quiet start into the new trading week, with no notable data releases or events in the Asian session. Overall, the USD weakened slightly, while the Aussie Dollar and the Euro were the top performing currencies. Asian equity markets are mostly higher, with only the ASX lower on the day. The Nikkei was closed for a holiday and USD\/JPY was caught in a tight range as well.<a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t13:10 BST &#8211; FOMC Member Lockhart speaks\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t18:20 BST &#8211; Bank of Canada Governor Poloz speaks\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t22:40 BST &#8211; RBA Assistant Governor Lowe speaks\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>The Week Ahead (Key Data\/Events):<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\t<u>Tuesday, October 13th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t01:30 BST &#8211; Australia NAB Business Confidence\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t03:30 BST &#8211; Chinese Trade Balance\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t07:00 BST &#8211; German CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t09:30 BST &#8211; UK CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t10:00 BST &#8211; German ZEW\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<u>Wednesday, October 14th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t02:30 BST &#8211; Chinese CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t09:30 BST &#8211; UK Claimant Count Change\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t09:30 BST &#8211; UK Unemployment Rate\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t09:30 BST &#8211; Average Earnings\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US PPI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US Retail Sales\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<u>Thursday, October 15th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t01:30 BST &#8211; Australian Employment Change\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t01:30 BST &#8211; Australian Unemployment Rate\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US Initial Jobless Claims\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US NY Empire Manufacturing Index\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; US Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t22:45 BST &#8211; New Zealand CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<u>Friday, October 16th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t10:00 BST &#8211; Euro Zone CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t10:00 BST &#8211; Euro Zone Trade Balance\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t14:15 BST &#8211; US Industrial Production\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t14:15 BST &#8211; US Manufacturing Production\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; US JOLTs Job Openings\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; US Michigan Consumer Sentiment\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian stock markets: Shanghai up 2.40 %, Hang Seng rose 1.25 %, ASX fell 0.70 % Commodities: Gold at $1157.80 (+1.20 %), Silver at $15.83 (+0.40 %), WTI Oil at $50.00 (+1.15 %), Brent Oil at $53.25 (+0.60 %) Rates: US 10 year yield at 2.09, UK 10 year yield at 1.86, German &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/monday-12th-october-european-open-briefing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 12th October: European Open Briefing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14943,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14942\/revisions\/14943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}