Analysis and Recommendations:

Silver is trading at 27.263 down a bit in today’s session. This report is being posted before the FOMC statement; please see our gold report for an update after the Federal Reserve statement is released.

At this time markets are positioning themselves on expectations that Bernanke and company will offer limited stimulus today, with the big guns reserved for September, while they wait to see what the ECB does later this week.

After negative data from China released this morning, the metals pack have been under pressure, as the largest consumer in the world continues to report slowdowns.

FxEmpire provides in-depth analysis for each currency and commodity we review. Fundamental analysis is provided in three components. We provide a detailed monthly analysis and forecast at the beginning of each month. Then we provide more recent analysis and information in our weekly reports and we provide daily updates and outlooks.

Economic Data August 1, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Currency

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

Aug. 01

KRW

South Korean CPI (YoY)

1.5%

2.0%

2.2%

KRW

South Korean CPI (MoM)

-0.2%

0.3%

-0.1%

CNY

Chinese Manufacturing PMI

50.10

50.30

50.20

AUD

House Price Index (QoQ)

0.50%

-0.50%

-0.10%

CNY

Chinese HSBC Manufacturing PMI

49.50

49.50

GBP

Nationwide HPI (MoM)

-0.7%

-0.1%

-0.6%

EUR

Italian Manufacturing PMI

44.30

44.20

44.60

EUR

French Manufacturing PMI

43.4

43.6

43.6

EUR

German Manufacturing PMI

43.0

43.3

43.3

EUR

Manufacturing PMI

44.0

44.1

44.1

GBP

Manufacturing PMI

45.4

48.7

48.4

USD

ADP Nonfarm Employment Change

163K

120K

176K

Upcoming Economic Events that affect the USD

Date

Time

Currency

Event

Forecast

Previous

Aug 2

12:30

USD

Unemployment Claims

353K

14:00

USD

Factory Orders m/m

0.7%

Aug 3

12:30

USD

Non-Farm Employment Change

80K

12:30

USD

Unemployment Rate

8.2%

12:30

USD

Average Hourly Earnings m/m

0.3%

14:00

USD

ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI

52.1

Government Bond Auctions

Date Time Country

Aug 02 08:30 Spain

Aug 06 09:10 Norway

Aug 07 00:30 Japan

Aug 07 09:15 Austria

Aug 07 14:30 UK

Aug 07 17:00 US

Aug 08 09:30 Germany

Aug 08 10:00 Norway

Aug 08 15:30 Italy

Aug 08 17:00 US

Aug 09 15:30 Italy

Aug 09 17:00 US

Aug 10 10:00 Belgium

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