By FXEmpire.com

Analysis and Recommendations:

Silver is trading up at 26.962 after a severe fall yesterday. Precious metals as well as industrial metals are trading strong today. Silver rebounded slightly from yesterday decline, but was still weak in today’s session. Whereas gold has seen small gains and losses throughout the day with no real direction

The base metals complex traded on a positive on the back of weakness in the DX along with decline in LME inventories. Copper, the leader of the base metals group gained around 0.4 percent on account of decline in LME copper inventories by 0.4 percent which stood at 252,350 tonnes

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Economic Data July 11, 2012 actual v. forecast

Date

Currency

Event

Actual

Forecast

Previous

Jul. 11

AUD

RBA Assist Gov Lowe Speaks

KRW

South Korean Unemployment Rate

3.2%

3.2%

3.2%

JPY

Tertiary Industry Activity Index (MoM)

0.7%

0.2%

-0.2%

AUD

Westpac Consumer Sentiment

3.70%

0.30%

AUD

Home Loans (MoM)

-1.2%

0.7%

0.5%

EUR

German CPI (MoM)

-0.1%

-0.1%

-0.1%

EUR

German CPI (YoY)

1.7%

1.7%

1.7%

EUR

German 10-Year Bund Auction

1.310%

1.520%

CAD

Trade Balance

-0.8B

-1.0B

-0.6B

USD

Trade Balance

-48.7B

-48.5B

-50.6B

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

Date

Time

Currency

Event

Previous

Jul 12

9:00

EUR

Industrial Production m/m

-0.8%

12:30

USD

Unemployment Claims

12:30

USD

Import Prices m/m

-1.0%

18:00

USD

Federal Budget Balance

-124.6B

7:15

CHF

PPI m/m

-0.2%

Jul 13

12:30

USD

PPI m/m

-1.0%

13:55

USD

Prelim UoM Consumer Sentiment

73.2

Government Bond Auctions

Date Time Country

Jul 12 09:10 Italy

Jul 12 09:30 UK

Jul 12 15:00 US

Jul 12 17:00 US

Jul 13 09:10 Italy

Jul 13 10:00 Belgium

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