PMI

The Eurozone’s economy got off to a sluggish start in 2019. Latest forward-looking indicators showed as some of the Eurozone’s major economies have seen stagnating growth. Italy, Europe’s third-largest economy showed little signs of… Read More

As Theresa May continues to battle to deliver her Brexit vision, the impact of the ongoing struggle is becoming clear. GBP continued its slide against the US Dollar this morning as the latest PMI data sets for the UK came in below… Read More

US and Chinese officials began a second round of trade talks yesterday in Beijing. The meeting comes over a month after initial talks between Trump and Xi Jinping were held on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina just over a month… Read More

As the first key data sets for December begin trickling through, it is clear that many central banks were prudent in their acknowledgment of downside risks towards the end of last year. Following US manufacturing PMIs having slipped to a… Read More

The markets wake up to a new trading day of the year with the holiday season behind. Economic data picks up pace covering the latest for the month of December. In the early Asian session today, China's Caixin manufacturing PMI showed… Read More

The markets head into a busy week with a lot of incoming data covering the month of December. It is particularly busy for the USD where the week ahead will see economic reports covering the labor market and business activity as measured by… Read More

Once again the release of Eurozone Inflation data comes out along with other price-sensitive data, so we could be looking at some market volatility at 06:00 EST (12:00 CET). The other data to be released is the October Balance of Trade for… Read More

06:00 EST (12:00 CET) looks to be rather busy for the EURUSD with two important bits of data being released at the same time: November EZ consumer price index and October final unemployment rate. Each on their own could move the market, so… Read More

Recent weakness in Eurozone survey data suggests that Eurozone growth is likely to remain below the trend rate in Q4. A broad slew of Eurozone economic indicators, as well as indicators in individual member economies, have turned lower over… Read More

On Friday, November 23rd we have the release of Markit PMI for the Eurozone, which by itself can move the market. However, given the lackluster performance of equities in Europe recently, with the Stoxx 600 hitting a two-year low on… Read More