{"id":24254,"date":"2017-12-15T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=24254"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T06:16:42","slug":"friday-15th-december-european-open-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/friday-15th-december-european-open-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday 15th December: European Open Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\n\t<strong>Global Markets:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Asian stock markets: Nikkei fell 0.68 %, Shanghai Composite down 0.77 %, Hang Seng lost 1.09 %, ASX 200 declined 0.24 %<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Commodities: Gold at $1257.40, Silver at $15.94, WTI Oil at $57.13, Brent Oil at $63.34<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Rates: US 10-year yield at 2.36, UK 10-year yield at 1.17, German 10-year yield at 0.30<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>News &amp; Data:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(USD) Core Retail Sales m\/m 1.0 % vs 0.6 % expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(USD) Retail Sales m\/m 0.8 % vs 0.3 % expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(USD) Unemployment Claims 225K vs 237K expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(EUR) Minimum Bid Rate 0.00 % vs 0.00 % expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(GBP) Official Bank Rate 0.50 % vs 0.50 % expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(GBP) MPC Official Bank Rate Votes 0-0-9 vs 0-0-9 expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(GBP) Retail Sales m\/m 1.1 % vs 0.4 % expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(CHF) Libor Rate -0.75 % vs -0.75 % expected<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Fund managers seek stocks benefiting from Democratic gains in 2018 U.S. elections<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Oil stable on tighter market, but rising US output looms for 2018- RTRS<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Markets Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Asia-pacific equities were mostly lower on Friday as sentiment was hurt by Wall Street&rsquo;s weakness on concerns about the progress of U.S. tax reform. Dollar headed for its first weekly loss this month as investors assessed messages from Federal Reserve and European Central Bank meetings this week<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">USDJPY was slightly lower for the day currently seen trading around 112.25 as the Yen gained over 0.1 percent against the US Dollar heading for its strongest week in a month. Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 came under pressure in spite of fresh signs the economy is gathering momentum. The Nikkei 225 slid over 0.6 percent. Major exporters traded lower as the dollar lost ground against the yen.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">EURUSD is mostly unchanged and is currently seen steadily trading around 1.1784. On Thursday, the European Central Bank raised growth and inflation forecasts for the euro area, but stuck with its pledge to provide stimulus for as long as needed. The&nbsp;dollar index, which tracks the dollar against a basket of currencies rose close to 0.1 percent for the session and is currently valued at 93.56. The yield on 10-year Treasuries rose one basis point to 2.36 percent.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">AUDUSD was marginally higher for the session currently seen trading at 0.7673 as the AUD gained 0.1 percent against the US Dollar. Australia&rsquo;s 10-year yield declined four basis points to 2.52 percent. Meanwhile the Kiwi dollar jumped 0.5 percent against the US Dollar to current levels of over 0.7020.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<strong>Upcoming Events:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">10:00 GMT &ndash; (EUR) Trade Balance<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">13:15 GMT &ndash; (GBP) MPC Member Haldane Speaks<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">13:30 GMT &ndash; (CAD) Manufacturing Sales m\/m<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">13:30 GMT &ndash; (USD) Empire State Manufacturing Index<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">14:15 GMT &ndash; (USD) Capacity Utilization Rate<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">14:15 GMT &ndash; (USD) Industrial Production m\/m<\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/education\/forex-news-and-calendar\/\">&amp; More&hellip;<\/a><\/span>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Markets: Asian stock markets: Nikkei fell 0.68 %, Shanghai Composite down 0.77 %, Hang Seng lost 1.09 %, ASX 200 declined 0.24 % Commodities: Gold at $1257.40, Silver at $15.94, WTI Oil at $57.13, Brent Oil at $63.34 Rates: US 10-year yield at 2.36, UK 10-year yield at 1.17, German 10-year yield at 0.30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/friday-15th-december-european-open-briefing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 15th December: 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-24254","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\/24254","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=24254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24255,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24254\/revisions\/24255"}],"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=24254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ic-cn-asia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}