European forex trading session starts with the German Import Price Index at 6:00GMT, followed by French PPI and CPI data at 6:45GMT. Eurozone Consumer and economic confidence dropping in at 9:00GMT.
In American forex calendar the PCE Price Index m/m, Core PCE Price Index m/m Personal Spending m/m, and Durable Goods Orders m/m are all due at 12:30GMT. The Michigan Consumer Sentiment and Michigan Consumer Expectations will be released at 14:00.
Crude oil traders await the Baker Hughes US Oil Rig Count due at 17:00.
In our central bank calendar, we have the speech from Bank of England Saunders in Barnsley at 7:00GMT, ECB’s Guindos and Knot speaking in Frankfurt at 7:15GMT.
Asian indices are trading lower today, Nikkei is 1.17% lower at 21,789, the Hang Seng is 0.28% lower at 25,961. EURUSD trades 0.01% higher at 1.0920; the USDJPY is 0.08% lower at 107.74 while the AUDUSD is 0.19% higher at 0.6761.
The central bank of China set the Yuan rate (USDCNY) at 7.0731 versus yesterday fix at 7.0729.
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