European stock indices are retracing down today after the slight growth on Friday. The Renault stocks fell by 3,2% on the news the French government did not approve of its merger with the Japanese carmaker Nissan. The tire producer Continental AG saw its stocks loosing 3.9% as its sales were weaker than expected. The Lufthansa staff went on strike with its stocks sliding 2.3% down. Today in the morning the positive external trade data for September was released in Germany. No more macroeconomic data is expected today in EU.
Nikkei was looking up today for the 6th consecutive day amid the weaker yen. The Nippon Telegraph & Telephone revised up its earnings outlook and its stocks increased 4.2%. Tomorrow early in the morning at 00:50 CET the external trade balance and the current account for September will be released. In our opinion, the tentative outlook is positive for yen and can push it down in the chart.
On Sunday the China’s external trade data for October was released. The import and export contracted more than expected but less than in September. For this reason, the data had almost no effect on the commodities markets.
Today the global oil prices have slightly increased on the OPEC comments the demand for oil will remain high next year. Remember that in 2015 the global demand for oil was the highest in 5 years totaling 1.8 barrels a day. According to Baker Hughes, oil service company, the number of active oil rigs has contracted for the 10th straight week to 572 units – the lowest since June 2010. According to Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the oil net longs at New York Mercantile Exchange increased 20% a week. Markets await higher oil prices.
The wheat has become cheaper on the US Agricultural Department report that its weekly export was 84.6 thousand tonnes which is below forecasts.
Gold edged up as investors thought China added 14 tonnes of gold to its reserves. There is no official confirmation on it yet.
According to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, net longs for sugar are increasing for the 6th week in a row reaching the 2-year high. Meanwhile, Brazil has revised up its forecast for sugar cane crops in 2016/17 to 32.9-33.7mln tonnes from previous 32mln tonnes.
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