FED: US TSY 4Y-10M TIPS AUCTION: HIGH YLD 1.433%; ALLOTMENT 95.96%

• RES 4: 1.1728 High Oct 17
• RES 3: 1.1694 50.0% retracement of the Sep 17 - Nov 5 bear leg  
• RES 2: 1.1669 High Oct 28 and key resistance
• RES 1: 1.1656 High Nov 13
• PRICE: 1.1578 @ 16:36 GMT Nov 18
• SUP 1: 1.1530/1469 Low Nov 7 / 5 and the bear trigger 
• SUP 2: 1.1425 1.500 proj of the Oct 17 - 22 - 28 price swing
• SUP 3: 1.1392 Low Aug 1 and bear trigger 
• SUP 4: 1.1313 Low May 30

Resistance to watch in EURUSD remains 1.1669, the Oct 28 high. Clearance of this hurdle is required to strengthen a short-term bull theme and highlight a stronger reversal. Note that moving average studies are in a bear-mode position. This highlights a dominant downtrend and continues to suggest that gains since Nov 5 are corrective. A reversal lower would refocus attention on key support at 1.1469, the Nov 5 low.   

Tuesday's Europe rates/bond options flow included:

• DUF6 107.10/107.00/106.90 put ladder, paper pays 1.25 (+1) in 5k
• DUF6 107.1 call bought for 7 in 4.8k
• DUG6 107.5 call, paper pays 4 in 5k
• RXZ5 129.00c, sold at 20 in 2k
• RXG6 132.50/134.00cs, bought for 9 in 2k
• RXH6 126.5/126.0 put strip bought for 67 in 20k
• ERG6 98.00/98.12/98.25c fly, bought for 1 in 5k
• ERH6 98.12/98.25cs vs 97.9375p, bought back the put for 1.25 in 3.5k
• ERH6P 97.9375p vs ERZ6C 98.1875/98.375cs, bought the cs for 1.75 in 6k
• 0RH6 97.87/97.75/97.62/97.37broken put condor, sold at 2.5 in 4k
• SFIZ5 96.20/96.25/96.30c fly, bought for 1 in 6.5k (ref 96.245) vs selling SFIZ5 96.25/96.35/96.45/96.55c condor at 2 in 6.5k
• SFIZ5 96.25/96.30/96.35/96.40c condor, bought for 2.5 in 4.5k
• SFIF6 96.55/96.70/96.80c fly, bought for 2 in 3k
• SFIM6 96.65/96.75cs vs 96.15p, bought the cs for 0.25 in 4k

• Bloomberg reports a DOL spokesman saying it will publish weekly jobless claims on Thursday, citing the overnight release at ~0310ET as a technical issue.
• Recall, earlier today we noted that the DOL had strangely reported only a single week of initial claims data (for Oct 18) and two weeks for continuing claims around then, with the 232k for initial claims somewhat above the 227k we had tracked at the time from state-level data.
• The initial jobless claims data remain at a healthy level, not yet showing any sign of the recent rise in October layoff announcements reported by both the Challenger report from two weeks ago and a more recent update from Cleveland Fed researchers looking specifically at WARN filings. 

"*US WEEKLY JOBLESS CLAIMS DATA TO BE RELEASED THU., DOL SAYS
*TECHNICAL ISSUE CAUSED EARLY POSTING OF SOME CLAIMS DATA: DOL" - bbg