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

Asia
21:00pm    - SK Consumer Confidence
21:45pm    - NZ Trade Balance
21:45pm    - NZ Imports
21:45pm    - NZ Exports
00:30am    - JN Nikkei Japan PMI Mfg
05:00am    - SI Industrial Production
05:00am    - JN Leading Index


Europe:
07:00am    - DEN Retail Sales
07:00am    - FIN PPI
08:00am    - SPA PPI
08:30am    - SWE PPI
09:00am    - GER IFO
09:00am    - ITL Industrial Orders
10:30am    - ECB's Nouy Speaks at Conference in Frankfurt
12:30pm    - ECB Vice-President Constancio speaks in Madrid
18:15pm    - ECB's Coeure speaks in Paris


US
14:45pm    - US Markit Manu. PMI
14:45pm    - US Markit Services PMI
14:45pm    - US Markit Composite PMI


Market focus this Morning...
-Germany’s biggest opposition party is debating whether to begin talks with Angela Merkel on a minority government or a coalition, offering a way to restore political leadership in Europe’s biggest economy.
-Britons were warned they are on course for the longest fall in living standards since records began 60 years ago after the U.K.’s fiscal watchdog took the ax to its outlook for economic growth.
-Japanese equities look set to decline as traders return from a holiday, while attention swings back to China after a sudden sell-off sent equities plunging on Thursday.
-Top European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said Britain’s divorce with the European Union was putting strain on its friendship with the bloc, and that deregulation would put global financial systems on course towards another crisis.