Week ahead: China data, UK GDP in the spotlight

The market spotlight over the coming week will shift towards Asia.

On Tuesday, China's customs administration will release foreign trade figures for the month of October.

They will be followed on Thursday by consumer price data for the Asian giant covering that same month with money supply data set to follow on Friday.

In other Asia news, the minutes of the Bank of Japan's last policy meeting were due out on Sunday 5 November.

Rate-setters Down Under meanwhile were expected to announce a 15 basis point hike in their main policy rate on Tuesday to 4.35%.

Also on Friday, the Office for National Statistics will publish gross domestic product data for September.

Having eked out quarterly growth of 0.1% and 0.2% during the first and second quarters of 2023, the economy looked set to stagnate or even record a 0.1% quarter-on-quarter decline over the three months to September.

And Bank of England Governor, Andrew Bailey, was scheduled to deliver a speech on Wednesday.

In the euro area, the main risk event would be the final readings on S&P Global's services sector purchasing managers' indices for the bloc's major economies.

Stateside the University of Michigan would announce the preliminary results of its consumer confidence survey for November.

Monday 06 November

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Consumer Credit (US) (20:00)

Factory Orders (GER) (07:00)

PMI Composite (EU) (09:00)

PMI Composite (GER) (08:55)

PMI Services (EU) (09:00)

PMI Services (GER) (08:55)

Q3

Kosmos Energy (DI)

EGMS

ROS Agro GDR REG S

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

PMI Construction (09:30)

Tuesday 07 November

INTERIMS

3i Infrastructure

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Balance of Trade (US) (13:30)

Industrial Production (GER) (07:00)

Producer Price Index (EU) (10:00)

FINALS

Associated British Foods, DotDigital Group

AGMS

Murray Income Trust, Time Finance

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS

Beazley, Direct Line Insurance Group, Hilton Food Group, IWG , Luceco , Persimmon

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Halifax House Price Index (07:00)

Retail Sales (00:01)

Wednesday 08 November

INTERIMS

Marks & Spencer Group

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Mobeus Income & Growth 2 Vct

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00)

Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30)

MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00)

Retail Sales (EU) (10:00)

Wholesales Inventories (US) (15:00)

GMS

Superdry

FINALS

Smiths News , Time Out Group

AGMS

JPMorgan Emerging Markets Inv Trust

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS

Hiscox Limited (DI), ITV

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Manchester & London Investment Trust

Thursday 09 November

INTERIMS

3i Group, Auto Trader Group , Cropper (James), National Grid, Urban Logistics Reit, Wincanton, Wizz Air Holdings

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Octopus AIM VCT 2, Plus500 Ltd (DI)

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Airtel Africa , Anpario, Burford Capital NPV (DI), C&C Group (CDI), Catalyst Media Group, London Security, Sainsbury (J), SThree, Touchstar, Warpaint London

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE

BlackRock Latin American Inv Trust

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Balanced Commercial Property Trust Limited , BP, Chenavari Toro Income Fund Limited NPV, Greencoat Renewables (CDI), Picton Property Income Ltd, Seplat Energy (DI), The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)

Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)

Q3

Apax Global Alpha Limited , AstraZeneca, Burford Capital NPV (DI), Endeavour Mining, Indivior, Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.NPV (CDI)

FINALS

WH Smith

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Plus500 Ltd (DI)

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE

abrdn Smaller Companies Income Trust, Softcat

EGMS

Fix Price Group Gdr (Each repr 1) (Reg s)

AGMS

Libertine Holdings, Libertine Holdings, Thor Energy , UIL Limited (DI)

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS

Domino's Pizza Group, Flutter Entertainment (CDI), Lancashire Holdings Limited, S4 Capital, Taylor Wimpey, Vistry Group

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

RICS Housing Market Survey (00:01)

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Galliford Try, Genus, NCC Group, Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust, Softcat

Friday 10 November

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Bodycote, Breedon Group , Chesnara, Kerry Group 'A' Shares (CDI), LSL Property Services, Puma Alpha Vct , Senior, Spectris, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Travis Perkins

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE

Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited NPV

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

U. of Michigan Confidence (Prelim) (US) (15:00)

Q3

Allianz Technology Trust

GMS

Minoan Group

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Mid Wynd International Inv Trust

AGMS

DFS Furniture, Galliford Try, Redrow

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Balance of Trade (07:00)

Gross Domestic Product (07:00)

Index of Services (07:00)

Industrial Production (07:00)

Manufacturing Production (07:00)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

JPMorgan Emerging Markets Inv Trust, Mid Wynd International Inv Trust