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

Asia
23:50pm    - JN Housing Loans
00:00am    - NZ ANZ Consumer Confidence
00:00am    - AU Consumer Inflation Expectations
00:30am    - AU Employment Change
00:30am    - AU Employment Rate
00:30am    - AU Participation Rate
06:00am    - JN Machine Orders


Europe:
05:30am    - NE Unemployment Rate
06:30am    - FR ILO Unemployment Rate
08:30am    - SW Unemployment Rate
08:45am    - ECB's Mersch speaks in Frankfurt
09:00am    - Norway Central Bank Deputy Governor Nicolaisen Speaks in Oslo
09:30am    - UK Retail Sales
10:00am    - EC CPI
11:00am    - ECB's Praet speaks in Brussels
14:00am    - BOE's Carney, Broadbent, Cunliffe, Place, Ramsden, Woods Speak
20:00am    - ECB's Constancio Speaks in Ottawa


US
13:30pm    - CA Manufacturing Sales
13:30pm    - CA ADP Publishes Canada Payrolls report
13:30pm    - US Initial Jobless Claims
13:30pm    - US Continuing Claims
13:30pm    - US Philly Fed Business Outlook
13:30pm    - US Import Price Index
13:30pm    - US Export Price Index
14:10pm    - Fed's Mester Delivers Keynote Address at Cato Conference
14:15pm    - US Industrial Production
14:15pm    - US Capacity Ultilization
21:45pm    - Fed's Williams Speaks at Asia Economic Policy Conference


Market focus this Morning...
-Dow sheds 135 points to close at lowest level in three weeks. The S&P 500 declined 0.55 percent, with energy declining 1.2 percent. Energy stocks were pressured by a drop in oil prices.
-U.S. government debt yields declined on Wednesday after government consumer prices data reflected tame inflation. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note sat lower at around 2.34%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was lower at 2.791%.
-Mugabe is reportedly in detention following what the military claims is a "bloodless correction" targeting so called "criminals" around the president Witnesses have reported hearing explosions in the capital Harare as tanks block streets and long lines form at banks.
-The Federal Reserve doesn't understand what's happening to a key economic model, Fed's Charles Evans says. "We don't have a great understanding of why it's gotten to be so flat," Evans said about the so-called Phillips curve.
-S&P revised the outlook on a number of UK banks including Barclays (BBB), HSBC (AA-) and RBS (BBB+) to stable from negative.
-EPP leader Weber, after meeting with UK PM May, said progress in Brexit talks is possible and there is a willingness for compromise.
-US Empire Manufacturing (Nov) 19.4 versus 25.0 expected, previous 30.0
-US CPI M/M +0.1% versus +0.1% expected, previous +0.5%
-US Retail Sales Data M/M +0.2% versus 0.0% expected, previous +1.6% revised to +1.9%.
-Crude closed at its lowest in almost two weeks as Russia is said to be less than convinced that OPEC should extend output curbs in a meeting this month.
-Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren says unemployment is likely to fall below 4 percent, increasing pressures on inflation and asset prices, and justifying additional interest-rate increases.