The ADP employment report was delayed by a day due to the US holiday so it will be released today at 8:15 am ET (1215 GMT). The consensus is +300K and that should provide somewhat of a guide ahead of Friday’s non-farm payrolls report.
Jobs will also be in focus with the initial jobless claims report 15 minutes later. With that we also get revisions to US Q1 productivity data.
The next main event comes at 10 am ET with the April factory orders report, which is expected to show a 0.7% increase. Looking deeper into the future, the factory outlook is darkening. Yesterday, a number of a automakers reported a sharp slowdown in US sales.

Honda -57.3%
Toyota -27.3%
Mazda -63.7%
Nissan -29.1%

Backlogs and inventory building should help to keep them busy through year end but there’s a growing chance of a sharp slowdown in 2023.
Along with the factory orders report, we get revisions to durable goods data.
Also delayed this week due to the holiday is the weekly US crude oil inventory report. The API data was moderately bullish but it will all be overshadowed by the OPEC meeting, which is at 8:30 am ET (2:30 pm in Vienna).
On the central bank calendar we get:

BOC’s Beaudry 11 am ET
Fed’s Logan noon ET
Fed’s Mester 1 pm ET

Watch the video for the key trading levels for AUDJPY,
AUDUSD, EURJPY, EURUSD, GBPJPY, GBPUSD, NZDJPY, NZDUSD, USDCAD, USDJPY, USD
Index, and Oil.

 

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USD
strength prevailed after a strong US ISM Manufacturing PMI data release last
night.

 

Read
the updated analysis below:

·     
AUDJPY has
closed above the 93.00 level.

·     
AUDUSD has
rejected and closed below the 0.7200 level.

·     
EURJPY has
closed above 138.31 last month’s high.

·     
EURUSD has
declined back down to the 1.0635 monthly support level.

·     
GBPJPY has
rallied back to the 163.06 monthly resistance level.

·     
GBPUSD has
declined down from the 1.2638 daily resistance level. A double top pattern may
now be forming.

·     
NZDJPY
has
rallied back to the 84.24 daily resistance level.

·     
NZDUSD
has
declined down from the 0.6527 monthly resistance level. A double top pattern
may now be forming.

·     
USDCAD has
found support at 1.2659 the weekly 62% fib retracement level.

·     

USDJPY has closed above the 129.77 daily resistance
level.

·     
USD Index
remains positive for the week trading back towards the 103.81 monthly
resistance level.

·     
Oil has
rejected the 114.44 major monthly resistance level.

 

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was written by Duncan Cooper – Senior Market Strategist & Trading Mentor.

 

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Prior 24.29kUS-based employers announced 20,712 job cuts last month, down from the 24,286 job cuts announced in April. This continues to reaffirm strong labour market conditions though it adds to the near record high job openings seen in April.

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