{"id":22324,"date":"2017-08-10T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=22324"},"modified":"2017-08-10T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:25:17","slug":"thursday-10th-august-european-open-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/thursday-10th-august-european-open-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 10th 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 0.04 %, Shanghai Composite down 0.92 %, Hang Seng dropped 1.28 %, ASX 200 fell 0.21 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCommodities: Gold at $1282.71 (+0.27 %), Silver at $16.86 (+0.06 %), WTI Oil at $49.55 (-0.02 %), Brent Oil at $52.70 (+0.02 %)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRates: US 10-year yield at 2.24, UK 10-year yield at 1.10, German 10-year yield at 0.43\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tCrude Oil Inventories -6.5 M vs -2.6 M expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRBNZ Interest Rate Decision 1.75 % vs 1.75 % expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tGBP Rics House Price Balance 1 % vs 8 % expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCAD Building Permits m\/m 2.5 % vs -1.8 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAUD MI Inflation Expectations 4.2 % vs 4.4 % previous\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNorth Korea calls Trump&#39;s warning a &#39;load of nonsense&#39;- RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJapan PM should focus on regulatory reforms, say economists- RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t&nbsp;<strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tAsian stocks turned lower reversing earlier gains on Thursday as investors continued to take risks off the table owing to the continued tensions between the United States and North Korea\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEUR\/USD was little changed and slipped down only about 0.1 percent in value to the lows of 1.1732 while the dollar index against a basket of major currencies added 0.1 percent to 93.620.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNZD\/USD slipped to a near one-month low of $0.7300 losing 0.5 % after Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Graeme Wheeler&rsquo;s comments on the NZ Dollar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAUD\/USD &nbsp;opened Asia 0.7991 after&nbsp;a steady session in the Wall Street, before reversing lower to revisit the session low at 0.7870&nbsp;loosely tracked by the movements in the NZD.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUSD\/JPY after going as low as 109.560, its weakest in eight weeks. ticked a few points higher into the Tokyo fix time today, popping above 110.10 briefly before giving back some of its gains.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t08:30 GMT &ndash; 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