FOREX

EUR/USD slipped in early Monday's trade as French and German PMI numbers for June came lower than expected.

US dollar traded lower on 23 June as risk appetite improved after stronger Chinese data reduced safe haven demand for greenback.

Canadian dollar rallied to a near seven-month high against the US dollar on Friday as Canada's consumer price and retail sales data surprised on the higher side.

Norwegian Krone falls to fresh lows as Norges Bank hints at rate cut.

British pound rallies to new highs against US dollar and Japanese yen.

On hourly chart, US dollar index breaks below 50% and 61.8% Fibonacci retracement of 21 May to 11 June uptrend.

The British pound shed some of its recent gains following the BoE minutes, which did not add to the hawkish tone set by central bank governor.

The Indian rupee has held near the 1-1/2-month low against the US dollar with no big surprise expected at the Fed meeting later in the day.

MPC minutes to show how hawkish the policy making body has become with the improved growth and employment conditions.

70% of India's oil needs met by imports, leaving rupee largely defenceless against oil price swings.

Indian rupee falls to fresh multi-week lows against the US dollar, pound, euro and yen.

UK consumer price and factory gate inflation data and Germany ZEW survey are watched ahead of US CPI inflation and housing starts.

The NGO has apologised to donors after an employee lost €3.8mn.

Week to June 20 marked by FOMC policy decision and policy meeting minutes from BoE, RBA and BoJ.

Inflation data and BoE minutes next week will be carefully watched to see if indications substantiate what Carney said.

Indian rupee fell to a one-month low on Friday as rising oil supply concerns threatened to increase Asia's third largest economy's import bills.

British pound rallies to over one-month high after Bank of England governor Mark Carney signalled early rate hike.

Football tourists in Brazil will buy fewer reals with their dollar bills than they could have bought in January.

NZD/USD has resistance at 0.8679 and then at 0.8781, the 9 May peak, ahead of the all-time high at 0.8844 hit on 5 June 2011.

Charts suggest broad uptrend in GBP/USD and downtrend in EUR/USD to continue.

Sterling rallied on the better-than-expected unemployment data on Wednesday but the move was within its recent short-term trends.

In NZD/USD, the break above the critical 0.8546 resistance has likely opened doors to 0.8592 and then 0.8638.

Euro lost ground across the board on Tuesday amid speculation the European Central Bank will be forced to increase its stimulus measures.

Consumer price inflation rose to a four-month high in China in May while producer price deflation came in lower than expected.

Gains in gold over last few days could not push it out of a broader downtrend of metal.

Polish zloty rallied sharply last week helped by European Central Bank's stimulus measures.

The data calendar for next week is not so heavy with US and Eurozone having nothing major to wait for. GDP estimate by NIESR and ILO unemployment rate for UK are important for that economy while rate decisions in Japan and New Zealand are unlikely to surprise markets. China CPI is the most important from Asia.

The US dollar traded choppy after the jobs report on Friday but stayed firm into the later hours of the day given the lower-than-expected payroll additions in May.

The people of UK expect the price rise to slow down in the years ahead, according to a BoE survey.