Tuesday preview: Tokyo CPI, UK retail sales in focus

Investors' focus on Tuesday will be on the latest monthly consumer price figures in Tokyo.

Consensus was that overnight the country's Bureau of Statistics would announce that core CPI fell from a 2.3% annual pace in November to 2.1% for December.

On home shores meanwhile, the only significant report due would be that from the British Retail Consortium covering like-for-like retail sales during that same month.

In the U.S., at 1100 GMT the National Federation of Independent Business would release its optimism index for small businesses in December.

The Department of Commerce's November report on the monthly trade balance in goods would be published at 1330 GMT.

German industrial production figures for November were scheduled to go out at 0700 GMT.

Tuesday 09 January

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Balance of Trade (US) (13:30)

Industrial Production (GER) (07:00)

Unemployment Rate (EU) (10:00)

AGMS

Agriterra LD

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS

B&M European Value Retail S.A. (DI), Foresight Group Holdings Limited NPV

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

BRC Sales Monitor (00:01)