{"id":13273,"date":"2015-05-25T04:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2015-05-26T05:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T05:04:20","slug":"monday-25nd-may-european-open-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/monday-25nd-may-european-open-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 25th May: European Open Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<strong>Global Markets:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tAsian stock markets: Nikkei up 0.65 %, Shanghai Composite gained 2.30 %, ASX rose 1.20 %, Hang Seng closed\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCommodities: Gold at $1205 (0.00 %), Silver at $17.05 (+0.02 %), WTI Oil at $59.85 (+0.20 %), Brent Oil at $65.35 (-0.35 %)\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tRates: US 10 year yield at 2.215, UK 10 year yield at 1.941, German 10 year yield at 0.608\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tJapan Trade Balance &yen;53.0bln, Expected: -&yen;319bln, Previous: &yen;229bln\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJapan Exports 8.0 % y\/y, Expected: 6.4 %, Previous: 8.5 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJapan Imports -4.2 % y\/y, Expected: -1.5 %, Previous: -14.5 %\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJapan Adjusted Current Account -&yen;210bln, Expected: -&yen;380bln, Previous: &yen;10billion\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAsian shares edge down on U.S. rate hike bets &#8211; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tOil prices edge up on firm Asian, U.S. demand &#8211; RTRS\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<strong>CFTC Positioning Data:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tEUR net short 168K vs short 179K prior\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJPY net short 22K vs short 23.5K prior\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tGBP net short 23K vs short 31K prior\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAUD net long 7K vs long 4.5K prior\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCAD net long 4K vs short 4K prior\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCHF net long 9K vs long 10.5K prior\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tUnited States &ndash; Memorial Day Holiday\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tUnited Kingdom &ndash; Late May Bank Holiday\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMost of Europe &ndash; Whit Monday Holiday\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t09:00 BST &#8211; Italian Trade Balance\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<strong>The Week Ahead (Key Data\/Events):<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<u>Tuesday, May 26th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US Durable Goods Orders\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; US Consumer Confidence\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; US New Home Sales\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; US Richmond Manufacturing Index\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<u>Wednesday, May 27th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t14:45 BST &#8211; US Services PMI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; Bank of Canada Interest Rate Decision\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<u>Thursday, May 28th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t08:00 BST &#8211; Spanish GDP\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t09:30 BST &#8211; UK GDP\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US Initial Jobless Claims\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t15:00 BST &#8211; US Pending Home Sales\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t<u>Friday, May 29th<\/u>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t00:30 BST &#8211; Japan CPI\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t00:30 BST &#8211; Japan Industrial Production\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t00:30 BST &#8211; Japan Unemployment Rate\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t02:00 BST &#8211; Australia New Home Sales\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t06:45 BST &#8211; Swiss GDP\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t07:00 BST &#8211; German Retail Sales\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t09:30 BST &#8211; UK GDP\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; US GDP\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t13:30 BST &#8211; Canadian GDP\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: Nikkei up 0.65 %, Shanghai Composite gained 2.30 %, ASX rose 1.20 %, Hang Seng closed Commodities: Gold at $1205 (0.00 %), Silver at $17.05 (+0.02 %), WTI Oil at $59.85 (+0.20 %), Brent Oil at $65.35 (-0.35 %) Rates: US 10 year yield at 2.215, UK 10 year yield &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/monday-25nd-may-european-open-briefing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 25th May: 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-13273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13310,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions\/13310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}