Action Insight Mid-Day Report 4-10-18
| Action Insight Mid-Day Report 4-10-18 | | Yen and Dollar Broadly Lower, Markets on Risk on Mode as Trade War Fear Temporarily Relieved | Japan Yen and, to a slightly lesser extent, Dollar suffer broad based selloff today as global markets return to risk seeking mode. Major European indices are generally higher with DAX up near 1% at the time of writing. CAC is up 0.55% and FTSE is up 0.6%. That followed 0.54% rise in Nikkei earlier today. DOW opens up nearly 400 pts and is back above 24300 handle in initial trading. Generally speaking, investors are relieved that China President Xi Jinping's highly anticipated speech in Boao Forum for Asia didn't ended in escalation in trade tension with the US. |  | 
|  | EUR/USD Mid-Day Outlook Daily Pivots: (S1) 1.2277; (P) 1.2303 (R1) 1.2347; More.... EUR/USD's strong rally today and break of 1.2344 resistance firstly indicates the fall from 1.2475 has completed at 1.2214 already. Secondly, it invalidated the bearish case of larger trend reversal. Instead, price actions from 1.2555 high could merely be developing into a sideway consolidation pattern. Intraday bias is back on the upside for 1.2475/2555 resistance zone. We'd be cautious on strong resistance from there to bring another fall to extend sideway trading. On the downside, below 1.2302 minor support will turn bias back to the downside for 1.2214 instead. |  | | GMT | Ccy | Events | Actual | Forecast | Previous | Revised | | 23:01 | GBP | BRC Retail Sales Monitor Y/Y Mar | 1.40% | | 0.60% | | | 01:30 | AUD | NAB Business Conditions Mar | 14 | 17 | 21 | | | 01:30 | AUD | NAB Business Confidence Mar | 7 | 12 | 9 | | | 06:00 | JPY | Machine Tool Orders Y/Y Mar P | 28.10% | | 39.50% | | | 12:30 | CAD | Building Permits M/M Feb | -2.60% | 1.30% | 5.60% | 5.20% | | 12:30 | USD | PPI M/M Mar | 0.30% | 0.10% | 0.20% | | | 12:30 | USD | PPI Y/Y Mar | 3.00% | 2.90% | 2.80% | | | 12:30 | USD | PPI Core M/M Mar | 0.30% | 0.20% | 0.20% | | | 12:30 | USD | PPI Core Y/Y Mar | 2.70% | 2.60% | 2.50% | | | 14:00 | USD | Wholesale Inventories M/M Feb F | | 0.60% | 1.10% | | | | |