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Heads up for oil traders – OPEC to release June report Tuesday

OPEC will release its monthly market report later on Teusday (I donlt don’t have the time sry).

  • will provide OPEC production numbers for June
  • which will show compliance levels so far (with the agreed cuts)
  • preliminary numbers showed compliance for the group was over 100%, aggregated,due to extra output curbs by from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Kuwait

China June trade data, exports +4.3% y/y, imports +6.2% y/y (yuan terms)

china trade, yuan terms:

trade balance: expected CNY 425bn, prior was CNY 442.75bn

  • Exports +4.3% y/y: expected +3.5%, prior was +1.4%
  • Imports +6.2% y/y: expected -4.7%, prior was -12.7%

Exports have now risen for 3 consecutive months

The data is only dribbling out, do not have the trade balnce announced from China yet, nor the figures in USD terms. Nevertheless, bounce of both imports and exports is encouraging for the Chinese economy.

China has said trade with the US is down 6.6% y/y in H1.

Add this to the data agenda for Tuesday 14 July 2020 – China June trade data

Trade balance, exports and imports data are due from China today for june June 2020

There is no specific time set for the releases, and it has been very unpredictable in past months.

Yuan terms:

trade balance: expected CNY 425bn, prior was CNY 442.75bn

  • Exports y/y: expected +3.5%, prior was +1.4%
  • Imports y/y: expected -4.7%, prior was -12.7%

USD terms:

trade balance: expected $59.6bn, prior was $62.93bn

  • Exports: expected -2.0%, prior -3.3%
  • Imports: expected -9.0%, prior was -16.7%

NASDAQ tumbles over 2% after reaching all time

California rolling back reopening and the outside the lower close pressure tech talks

The US stocks are ending the session with mixed/negative results. The Dow industrial average actually close marginally higher on the day. The S&P index and NASDAQ, however, reversed earlier gains and fell sharply. Contributing to the declines was the news that California was rolling back some of the reopenings

  • The S&P index fell -29.77 points or -0.93% at 3155.27. The S&P index turned briefly positive for the year above 3230.78% intraday with the high price reaching 3235.32. That is the 2nd time since February 25 that the price briefly extended above the close from 2019 only to fail in the same trading day. Bearish
  • NASDAQ index -226.59 points or -2.13% at 10390.84. The index had a outside day lower close, after trading to a new all time high of 10824.78. Bearish
  • The Dow industrial average close up 10.7 points or 0.04% 26086.00
All the major indices closed near the lows for the day, after giving up some hefty gains.
  • The S&P index was up 1.58% before closing down -0.94%
  • the NASDAQ index is up 1.95%, before reversing lower in closing down -2.13%
  • the Dow industrial average was up +2.13% before reversing and closing near unchanged at +0.04%.
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