The main events of Thursday!

On Thursday, January 3, the day is full of statistics on the United States.

At 10:15 – retail sales in Switzerland  (y/y), previous value  0.8%.

At 10:30 – PMI of Switzerland from SVME (December),  forecast 56.9,  previous value 57.7.

At 11:30 – index of business activity in the construction sector (December) of the UK,  forecast 52.9, previous value  53.4.

At 15:15 – ADP nonfarm employment change (December) in the US,  forecast 178K,  previous valuen179K.

At 15:30 – initial jobless claims in the USA will be published,  forecast  220K,  previous value  216K.

At 17:00 – statistics on the United States:
– ISM manufacturing employment index (December),  previous value 58.4.
– ISM manufacturing index of business activity (PMI)  (December), forecast 57.9, previous value  59.3.

At 23:30 – API weekly stocks of crude oil in the United States,  previous value 6.920M.

Hanzenko Anton