By FXEmpire.com

Analysis and Recommendations:

The EUR/JPY is holding at 96.92 up from yesterday. The euro continues to muster bits of strenght, on hopes of the ECB and on minor economic news. Yesterday, a day with little news and eco data, markets rallied on a successful bond auction in Italy and on some minor German data.

Although a new court case was launched yesterday in Germany which might defer the ruling of the legality of the EMS.

In Japan GDP tumbled to 0.3% which is weighing heavily on the yen.

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Economic Data August 14, 2012 actual v. forecast

Aug. 14

GBP

RICS House Price Balance

-24%

-23%

-22%

JPY

Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes

JPY

Tertiary Industry Activity Index (MoM)

0.1%

-0.3%

0.9%

AUD

NAB Business Confidence

4

-3

AUD

New Motor Vehicle Sales (MoM)

-0.8%

-1.0%

KRW

South Korean Trade Balance

2.80B

2.70B

EUR

Estonian Unemployment Rate (YoY)

10.20%

11.50%

EUR

French CPI (MoM)

-0.4%

-0.2%

0.0%

EUR

French GDP (QoQ)

0.0%

-0.1%

0.0%

EUR

German GDP (QoQ)

0.3%

0.2%

0.5%

INR

Indian WPI (YoY)

7.37%

7.25%

EUR

Finnish CPI (YoY)

2.90%

2.80%

EUR

German GDP (YoY)

0.5%

1.0%

1.7%

Upcoming Economic Events that affect the AUD, NZD, JPY and USD

Date

Time

Currency

Event

Forecast

Previous

Aug 15

0:30

AUD

Westpac Consumer Sentiment

3.7%

1:30

AUD

Wage Price Index q/q

0.9%

0.9%

12:30

USD

Core CPI m/m

0.2%

0.2%

12:30

USD

Empire State Manufacturing Index

6.7

7.4

13:00

USD

TIC Long-Term Purchases

63.5B

55.0B

13:15

USD

Capacity Utilization Rate

79.3%

78.9%

13:15

USD

Industrial Production m/m

0.5%

0.4%

14:30

USD

Crude Oil Inventories

-3.7M

Aug 16

1:00

AUD

MI Inflation Expectations

3.3%

12:30

USD

Building Permits

0.77M

0.76M

12:30

USD

Unemployment Claims

365K

361K

12:30

USD

Housing Starts

0.76M

0.76M

14:00

USD

Philly Fed Manufacturing Index

-4.3

-12.9

22:45

NZD

PPI Input q/q

0.3%

Aug 17

13:55

USD

Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment

72.5

72.3

Government Bond Auctions

Date Time Country

Aug 15 09:10 Sweden

Aug 16 09:30 UK

Aug 16 15:00 US

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