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

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

Asia:
00:30am  - JPN Household spending YoY (0.1%)
02:30am  - AUS Home loans MoM
06:00am  - JPN Leading index
06:00am  - JPN Coincident index


Europe:
07:00am  - GER Trade balance
07:00am  - GER Current account balance
07:00am  - GER Exports SA MoM
07:00am  - GER Imports SA MoM
07:00am  - GER IP SA MoM
07:00am  - GER IP WDAS YoY
07:45am  - FRA Trade balance
07:45am  - FRA IP MoM
07:45am  - FRA IP YoY
07:45am  - FRA Manf Prod MoM
07:45am  - FRA Manf Prod YoY
08:00am  - SPA Industrial output SA YoY
08:00am  - SPA Industrial Prod MoM
08:30am  - UK Halifax house prices
09:00am  - ITL Retail sales MoM
09:00am  - ITL Retail sales YoY
10:00am  - EUR GDP SA QoQ
10:00am  - EUR GDP SA YoY


US:
13:30pm  - CAD Net change in employment
13:30pm  - CAD Unemployment rate
13:30pm  - U.S. Change in non-farm payrolls
13:30pm  - U.S. Change in private payrolls
13:30pm  - U.S. Change in manf payrolls
13:30pm  - U.S. Unemployment rate
13:30pm  - U.S. Average hourly earnings YoY
14:00pm  - Fed's Rosengrenm makles opening remarks in Boston.
14:00pm  - Fed's Mester i Boston
17:45pm  - Fed's Kaplan speaks at energy conference in Dallas


Market Focus this morning...
  - Swedens Riksbank left rates unchanged at -0.50%. Comments suggested a 25bp hike in either Decor Feb next year.
  - Fed's Williams (Voter, neutral) headlines suggested hen was puzzled at the low rate of wage growth and it was an issue for the FED> He said that the economy was in great shape and it was a good time for the Dual mandate (of the FED) He also pointed out that there bwas no need to hike more quickly than otherwise.
  - BOC's Wilkins revealed he had debated dropping the "gradual approach" to hiking rates. This gave a bid to the currency.
  - Canada's Freeland on NAFTA talks with the US, both sides showing goodwill and it has been another productive meeting with the US Treasury. Freeland still thinks that a deal with the US/Mexico is possible, Mexico made some very significant concessions.
  - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants to denuclearise the Korean peninsula during U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, as he agreed to hold a third summit with his South Korean counterpart this month in Pyongyang, Seoul officials said on Thursday.
  - UK Telegraph - On Brexit, during in a meeting last month UK's Raab told EU's Barnier that in the event of a no-deal Brexit there would have to be a wall built with Ireland
  - US jobless claims fall to near 49-year low