Forex and Bitcoin news from the European morning trading session 19 Feb 2018

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Not a blistering start to the week so far with the US and most of Canada both off for hols too.

The session began with a little USD demand that saw USDJPY post 106.66 from 106.35, GBPUSD down to 1.3992 from 1.4020 and EURUSD 1.2388 from 1.2420. Cue a little USD supply returning though and we've been back to 106.45, 1.4030 and 1.2420

USDCHF has fallen back to 0.9270 from 0.9300 with EURCHF supported still at 1.1500 but finding sellers around 1.1530.

AUDUSD has the spectre of 3.3bln in option contracts rolling off on Wednesday a 0.7950 hanging over it as well as immediate impact of a few today at 0.8000 and posted 0.7910 from 0.7930 before rebounding back.

NZDUSD fell from 0.7400 to 0.7375 before nudging back up while USDCAD has been tightly bound with oil also ranging tightly but off 1.2535 session lows to post 1.2554.

European equities opened in positive territory but have since posted losses while Gold

remains tightly bound around $1347 after Friday's retreat.

Crypto currencies have had a mixed session but still feeling some love again overall with Bitcoin finding support into $10700 but unable to hold above $11000.

No data event risk with both US and Canada having a long w-e.