{"id":22304,"date":"2017-08-09T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T05:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=22304"},"modified":"2017-08-09T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T05:26:42","slug":"wednesday-9th-august-european-open-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wednesday-9th-august-european-open-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 9th August: 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 fell 1.43 %, Shanghai Composite down 0.29 %, Hang Seng dropped 0.67 %, ASX 200 rose 0.40 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCommodities: Gold at $1270.41 (+0.62 %), Silver at $16.50 (+0.70 %), WTI Oil at $49.01 (-0.33 %), Brent Oil at $51.93 (-0.40 %)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRates: US 10 year yield at 2.25, UK 10 year yield at 1.15, German 10 year yield at 0.47\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tAUD Home Loans (MoM) 0.5 % vs 1.5 % expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCNY CPI y\/y 1.4 % vs 1.5 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCNY PPI y\/y 5.5 % vs 5.6 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJOLTS Job Openings 6.16 M vs 5.74 M expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tU.S. job openings at record high; labor market tightening&nbsp;&#8211; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tOil falls for third day as doubts over OPEC cuts linger &#8211; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tAsian stocks and U.S. equity-index futures dropped as investors took a risk-off approach and piled into havens such as U.S. Treasuries, gold and the yen as tensions on the Korean peninsula escalated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUSD\/JPY and all JPY crosses benefited in the Asian session, The yen rose over 0.4 percent to 109.74 per dollar, an eight-week high.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEUR\/USD has slipped just a tad lower from its late US levels opening Asia at 1.1750, Buyers are holding the price just above yesterday&rsquo;s low of 1.1715.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAUD\/USD has been hit&nbsp;lower on&nbsp;North Korean tensions reaching lows of 0.78552 against the US dollar. The risk barometer AUD\/JPY fell sharply losing over 150 pips.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\t<u>Wednesday, August 09th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t12:30 GMT &ndash; (CAD) Building Permits m\/m\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t14:30 GMT &ndash; (USD) Crude Oil Inventories\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t21:00 GMT &ndash; (NZD) Official Cash Rate\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t21:00 GMT &ndash; (NZD) RBNZ Rate Statement\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t21:00 GMT &ndash; (NZD) RBNZ Press Conference\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian stock markets: Nikkei fell 1.43 %, Shanghai Composite down 0.29 %, Hang Seng dropped 0.67 %, ASX 200 rose 0.40 % Commodities: Gold at $1270.41 (+0.62 %), Silver at $16.50 (+0.70 %), WTI Oil at $49.01 (-0.33 %), Brent Oil at $51.93 (-0.40 %) Rates: US 10 year yield at 2.25, UK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wednesday-9th-august-european-open-briefing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 9th August: 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-22304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22306,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22304\/revisions\/22306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}