Financial Diary
Week ahead: Manufacturing surveys, US jobs report in focus
Economic data over the coming holiday-shortened week will provide investors with further clues on the staying power of the US economic expansion and clues regarding the efficacy, or not, of the most recent monetary easing undertaken in China and in the euro area.
Week ahead: Brexit polls, Fedspeak in focus
The continuing flow of EU-referendum poll results and the latest Fedspeak was likely to be foremost on traders´minds over the coming week in the run-up the 23 June plebiscite and the mid-June US central bank policy meeting.
Week ahead: FOMC minutes, Fedspeak in focus
A raft of data next week will give investors a better grasp of the current state of play in the UK economy, although for all practical purposes the dominant short-them theme is likely to continue to be the rolling Brexit debate, which will continue to be reflected in the ebb and flow in cable.
Week ahead: China data at the top of the agenda
With the latest set of US jobs figures out of the way (and after several top brokers pushed out their forecast for the next Fed rate hike to September) the spotlight will shift back to Asia next week, markets' other bubgear of late.