By FXEmpire.com

Analysis and Recommendations:

Crude Oil rose for a third day in New York as speculation that U.S. economic growth will boost fuel demand in the world’s biggest crude consumer countered concern Europe’s debt crisis will worsen. Crude for July delivery climbed as much as $1.22 to $92.08 a barrel.

A rise in manufacturing activities in May comes with higher number for Dallas Fed Manufacturing index. Thus, oil prices may trade on higher side on the back of positive economic data expectation. As per National Hurricane Centre, tropical storm Beryl dissipated and became tropical depression. Thus, concern of supply disruption declined in Gulf areas, which may also limit the gains in oil prices. Overall, price trend looks upside with limited gains. US consumer confidence reported below forecast limiting oils gains. Markets were sure the report was going to be positive.

Concerns over Iran’s nuclear program and a weaker dollar index also helped the upside in prices of the commodity.

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Economic Data for May 29, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Currency

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

May 29

JPY

Unemployment Rate

4.6%

4.5%

4.5%

JPY

Retail Sales (YoY)

5.8%

6.3%

10.3%

AUD

HIA New Home Sales (MoM)

6.9%

-9.4%

GBP

CBI Distributive Trades Survey

21

-7

-6

EUR

German CPI (MoM)

-0.2%

-0.1%

0.2%

EUR

German CPI (YoY)

1.9%

2.0%

2.1%

USD

CB Consumer Confidence

64.9

70.0

68.7

WEEKLY

  • This Week in Petroleum
    Release Schedule: Wednesday @ 1:00 p.m. EST (schedule)
  • Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update
    Release Schedule: Monday between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. EST (schedule)
  • Weekly Petroleum Status Report
    Release Schedule: The wpsrsummary.pdf, overview.pdf, and Tables 1-14 in CSV and XLS formats, are released to the Web site after 10:30 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday. All other PDF and HTML files are released to the Web site after 1:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday. Appendix D is produced during the winter heating season, which extends from October through March of each year. For some weeks which include holidays, releases are delayed by one day. (schedule)

Upcoming Economic Events that affect the CHF, EUR, GBP and USD

Date

Time

Currency

Previous

May 30

7:00

CHF

KOF Economic Barometer

0.40

8:00

EUR

M3 Money Supply y/y

3.2%

8:30

GBP

Net Lending to Individuals m/m

1.4B

14:00

USD

Pending Home Sales m/m

4.1%

23:01

GBP

GfK Consumer Confidence

-31

May 31

5:45

CHF

GDP q/q

0.1%

31st-3rd

EUR

German Retail Sales m/m

0.8%

6:45

EUR

French Consumer Spending m/m

-2.9%

7:55

EUR

German Unemployment Change

19K

9:00

EUR

CPI Flash Estimate y/y

2.6%

12:15

USD

ADP Non-Farm Employment Change

119K

12:30

USD

Prelim GDP q/q

2.2%

12:30

USD

Unemployment Claims

370K

13:45

USD

Chicago PMI

56.2

15:00

USD

Crude Oil Inventories

0.9M

Jun 1

TBD

GBP

Halifax HPI m/m

7:15

CHF

Retail Sales y/y

4.2%

7:30

CHF

SVME PMI

46.9

7:45

EUR

Italian Manufacturing PMI

43.8

8:30

GBP

Manufacturing PMI

50.5

9:00

EUR

Unemployment Rate

10.9%

12:30

USD

Non-Farm Employment Change

115K

12:30

USD

Unemployment Rate

8.1%

12:30

USD

Core PCE Price Index m/m

0.0%

12:30

USD

Personal Spending m/m

0.2%

12:30

USD

ISM Manufacturing PMI

0.3%

14:00

USD

S&P/CS Composite-20 HPI y/y

54.8

Government Bond Auctions

Date Time Country

May 30 09:10 Italy

May 30 09:10 Sweden

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