Market focus

On Thursday, 14.02.2019, the day will be saturated with preliminary data on the GDP of Japan, Germany and the Eurozone. Also on this day, there are data on retail sales in the US and Canada. In the morning, market attention will be focused on GDP data. Data on Japan’s GDP will open the day, from which they expect very optimistic statistics indicating the Japanese economic growth. Toward the middle of the day, there are data on the GDP of Germany and the eurozone. Expectations from data for the euro area remain restrained, and from the statistics for Germany, you can expect support for the euro.

In the American session, market attention will shift to data on retail sales in the United States and Canada, expectations for which remain very restrained and ambiguous.

Hanzenko Anton