{"id":17299,"date":"2016-06-17T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T04:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=17299"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:24:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T05:54:44","slug":"friday-17th-june-european-open-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/friday-17th-june-european-open-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 17th June: European Open Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\n\t<strong>Global Markets:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tAsian stock markets: Nikkei up 1.30 %, Shanghai Composite gained 0.70 %, Hang Seng rose 0.80 %, ASX 200 rallied 0.25 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCommodities: Gold at $1288 (-0.90 %), Silver at $17.37 (-1.40 %), WTI Oil at $46.55 (+0.70 %), Brent Oil at $47.70 (+1.10 %)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRates: US 10 year yield at 1.60, UK 10 year yield at 1.14, German 10 year yield at -0.01\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 ANZ Consumer Confidence Index Jun: 118.9 (prev. 116.2)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNew Zealand ANZ Consumer Confidence (MoM) Jun: 2.3% (prev. -3.20%)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNew Zealand ANZ Job Advertisements (MoM) May: 0.20% (prev. 1.80%)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNew Zealand Business Manufacturing PMI May: 57.1 (prev. 56.5)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJapan Finance Minister Aso: Watching FX markets closely, concerned by rapid speculative moves, will intervene if necessary\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAsian shares face weekly losses, sterling steadies as Brexit risk seen ebbing &#8211; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCrude oil rises for first time in seven days &#8211; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJapan keeps economy assessment unchanged, warns of slower consumer price rises &ndash; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tThe British Pound recovered after Brexit fears easened slightly. GBP\/USD traded as high as 1.4293 overnight, after almost touching 1.40 in yesterday&#39;s early NY session. The rally in the Pound lifted the Euro as well, and EUR\/USD rose from 1.1140 to a high of 1.1270 in Asia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe improvement in risk appetite supported the Australian and Kiwi Dollar as well. AUD\/USD bounced off 0.7280 support yesterday and started the Asian session around 0.7360. It later extended gains to 0.7405. NZD\/USD traded in 0.7030-70 range overnight.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUSD\/JPY remains weak and a rally to 104.80 attracted plenty of selling interest, leading to a decline back into the lower 104s.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t09:00 BST &#8211; Euro Zone Current Account\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US Building Permits\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; Canadian CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian stock markets: Nikkei up 1.30 %, Shanghai Composite gained 0.70 %, Hang Seng rose 0.80 %, ASX 200 rallied 0.25 % Commodities: Gold at $1288 (-0.90 %), Silver at $17.37 (-1.40 %), WTI Oil at $46.55 (+0.70 %), Brent Oil at $47.70 (+1.10 %) Rates: US 10 year yield at 1.60, UK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/friday-17th-june-european-open-briefing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 17th June: 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-17299","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\/17299","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=17299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17300,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17299\/revisions\/17300"}],"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=17299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-ch-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}