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Forex Focus on US – China Trade Tensions this Week

Summary:
  • Trading week is starting slow with EURCHF traders awaiting the SNB total sight deposits w.e. 9 August due at 8:00GMT. The ZEW Economic Sentiment

Trading week is starting slow with EURCHF traders awaiting the SNB total sight deposits w.e. 9 August due at 8:00GMT. The ZEW Economic Sentiment Indicator tomorrow will be the main driver of EURUSD. The EU GDP (q/q) and Employment data will be released on Wednesday. On Thursday the UK and US retail data will be on focus.

US Federal Budget Balance Statement will be released at 18:00GMTwhile Reserve Bank of Australia’s member Kent will deliver a speech at 22:00GMT.

The People’s Bank of China has set the Yuan reference rate at 7.0211 versus Friday’s fix of 7.0136.

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In United Kingdom the MPs may try to stop PM Johnson from leaving the European Union without a deal by forcing the government to seek an extension to Brexit.

Traders around the globe will follow the developments on US – China trade conflict.

New Zealand Treasury confirmed that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand could cut OCR to minus 0.35% in a case of crisis.

Fitch Credit rating agency on Friday, affirmed Italy’s credit rating at ‘BBB’ with ‘Negative’ Outlook.