{"id":22381,"date":"2017-08-15T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T05:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=22381"},"modified":"2017-08-15T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T05:25:58","slug":"tuesday-15th-august-european-open-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/tuesday-15th-august-european-open-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 15th 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 rose 1.30 %, Shanghai Composite up 0.53 %, Hang Seng climbed 0.12 %, ASX up 0.49 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCommodities: Gold at $1281.13 (-0.72 %), Silver at $16.88 (-1.40 %), WTI Oil at $47.62 (+0.06 %), Brent Oil at $50.80 (+0.14 %)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRates: US 10-year yield at 2.25, UK 10-year yield at 1.06, German 10-year yield at 0.41\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tEUR Industrial Production m\/m -0.6 % vs -0.4 % expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJPY Industrial Production n\/m 2.2 % vs 1.6 % expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCNY Retail Sales y\/y 10.4 % vs 10.9 % expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCNY Fixed Asset Investment y\/y 8.3 % vs 8.6 % expected\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNorth Korea Backs Off Guam Missile-Attack Threat &ndash; WSJ\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tU.S. wages seen growing faster than headline data suggest- RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tChina says it will defend interests if U.S. harms trade ties- RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tAsian equity markets extended gains after North Korea&#39;s leader signaled that he would delay plans to fire a missile near Guam as the prospect of war between the U.S. and North Korea receded&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tUSD\/JPY made considerable ground&nbsp;on Monday, as geopolitical tensions eased between the US and North Korea, the Yen fell over 0.5 percent against the USD from 109.70 up through 110.20 where it has since steadied.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEUR\/USD was little changed and seen Trading flat on the day against the dollar at $1.1784. &nbsp;The Euro could not muster enough strength to close above August&rsquo;s opening level at 1.1830 while the US dollar index added a mere 0.1 percent to 93.480\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAUD\/USD failed to sustain gains beyond the 0.79 handle yesterday and proceeded to fall sharply down to the mid-level support at 0.7850 before finally rising about 0.3 percent to session highs of 78.71 U.S. cents after the RBA minutes.\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tFrench Bank Holiday\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tItalian Bank Holiday\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t06:00 GMT &ndash; (EUR) German Prelim GDP q\/q\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t07:15 GMT &ndash; (CHF) PPI m\/m\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t08:30 GMT &ndash; (GBP) CPI y\/y\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t08:30 GMT &ndash; (GBP) PPI Input m\/m\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t08:30 GMT &ndash; (GBP) RPI y\/y\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t12:30 GMT &ndash; (USD) Core Retail Sales m\/m\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t12:30 GMT &ndash; (USD) Retail Sales m\/m\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t12:30 GMT &ndash; (USD) Empire State Manufacturing Index\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t12:30 GMT &ndash; (USD) Import Prices m\/m\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian stock markets: Nikkei rose 1.30 %, Shanghai Composite up 0.53 %, Hang Seng climbed 0.12 %, ASX up 0.49 % Commodities: Gold at $1281.13 (-0.72 %), Silver at $16.88 (-1.40 %), WTI Oil at $47.62 (+0.06 %), Brent Oil at $50.80 (+0.14 %) Rates: US 10-year yield at 2.25, UK 10-year yield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/tuesday-15th-august-european-open-briefing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 15th 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-22381","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\/22381","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=22381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22384,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22381\/revisions\/22384"}],"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=22381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icm-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}