Things To Look Out For Today - Events & Data (Ldn Times)

Asia
22:30pm    - Aus Roy Morgan Weekly Consumer Confidence
00:30am    - Aus NAB Business Conditions
00:30am    - Aus NAB Business Confidence
02:00am    - Ch Retail Sales
02:00am    - Ch Industrial Production


Europe:
07:00am    - Nor GDP
07:00am    - Fin CPI
07:00am    - Ger GDP
07:00am    - Ger CPI
08:00am    - Spa CPI
08:05am    - Fed's Evans Speaks in Frankfurt
08:30am    - Neth CPI
08:30am    - Swed CPI
09:00am    - ECB's Lautenschlaeger Speaks in Frankfurt
09:00am    - Itl GDP
09:30am    - UK CPI
09:30am    - UK RPI
09:30am    - UK PPI
10:00am    - Draghi, Yellen, Carney, Kuroda Speak in Frankfurt
10:00am    - Eur Industrial Production
10:00am    - Ger ZEW Survey
10:00am    - Eur CPI
10:00am    - Eur GDP
10:00am    - Itl CPI
12:45pm    - ECB's Villeroy de Galhau Speaks in Paris
17:30pm    - BOE's Cunliffe speaks in Oxford


US
10:00am    - Yellen Speaks on ECB Panel with Draghi, Kuroda, and Carney
11:00am    - US NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
13:15pm    - Fed's Bullard Speaks on U.S. Economy in Louisville
13:30pm    - US PPI
18:05pm    - Fed's Bostic Speaks on Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy


Market focus this Morning...
-US Stocks finish slightly higher, but big GE losses cap gains. Market sentiment has been on edge as of late. Investors are wondering whether the government will get tax reform done at all this year.
-U.S. government debt yields varied on Monday, as investors grew worried the GOP tax plan may not be finalized before year's end. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note sat lower at around 2.398 percent.
-Sterling fell against the dollar and euro on Monday as investors worried about Theresa May's ability to stay on as British prime minister and get what they consider to be a good exit deal from the European Union.