By FXEmpire.com

Analysis and Recommendations:

Natural Gas continues to bounce losing just over 2 cents in today’s session as investors are trying to pick profitable positions before the release of inventories tomorrow.

This weekend’s election in Greece could determine if that financially troubled country will leave the euro currency union. In other trading, heating oil was unchanged at $2.63 per gallon, gasoline was unchanged at $2.65 per gallon at natural gas rose 4 cents to $2.26 per 1,000 cubic feet. At the pump, the national average for a gallon of gasoline rose less than a penny to $3.542 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and the Oil Price Information Service. That’s nearly 19 cents less than a month ago.

Natural gas futures declined for the second day and to the lowest level since April, on forecasts for cooler weather that may reduce power-plant demand for the fuel.

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Economic Data for June 13, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Time

Currency

Importance

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

Jun. 13

00:00

JPY

BoJ Governor Shirakawa Speaks

01:30

AUD

Westpac Consumer Sentiment

0.30%

0.80%

06:30

EUR

French CPI (MoM)

-0.1%

0.2%

0.1%

07:00

EUR

German CPI (MoM)

-0.2%

-0.2%

-0.2%

07:00

EUR

German CPI (YoY)

1.9%

1.9%

1.9%

08:15

CHF

PPI (MoM)

-0.2%

-0.2%

-0.1%

10:00

EUR

Industrial Production (MoM)

-0.8%

-1.0%

-0.1%

13:30

USD

Core PPI (MoM)

0.2%

0.2%

0.2%

13:30

USD

Core Retail Sales (MoM)

-0.4%

0.0%

-0.3%

13:30

USD

PPI (MoM)

-1.0%

-0.6%

-0.2%

13:30

USD

Retail Sales (MoM)

-0.2%

-0.2%

-0.2%

13:30

USD

PPI (YoY)

0.7%

1.1%

1.9%

13:30

USD

Core PPI (YoY)

2.7%

2.8%

2.7%

WEEKLY

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

Date

Time

Currency

Event

Forecast

Previous

Jun 14

7:30

CHF

Libor Rate

7:30

CHF

SNB Monetary Policy Assessment

7:30

CHF

SNB Press Conference

8:00

CHF

SNB Financial Stability Report

8:00

EUR

ECB Monthly Bulletin

9:00

EUR

CPI y/y

2.4%

12:30

USD

Unemployment Claims

377K

12:30

USD

CPI m/m

0.0%

12:30

USD

Current Account

-124B

Jun 15

8:30

GBP

Trade Balance

-8.6B

12:30

USD

Empire State Manufacturing Index

17.1

13:00

USD

TIC Long-Term Purchases

36.2B

13:15

USD

Capacity Utilization Rate

79.2%

13:15

USD

Industrial Production m/m

1.1%

13:55

USD

Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment

79.3

Government Bond Auctions

Date Time Country

Jun 14 09:10 Italy

Jun 14 09:30 UK

Jun 14 15:00 US

Jun 14 17:00 US

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