The main events of Friday!

On Friday, September 28, the market will be focused on data on the euro area, the UK and Canada.

At 00:45 – will be the speech of the Bank of Canada Governor Poloz.

At 01:45 –  building permit (m / m) (Aug) in New Zealand, previous value -10.3%.

At 02:30 –  data on consumer prices in Japan:
– Jobs/applications ratio  (Aug), forecast 1.63, previous value 1.63.
– Core consumer price index (CPI) in Tokyo (y / y) (Sept), forecast 0.9%, previous value 0.9%.
– Industrial production (m / m) (Aug), forecast 1.5%, previous value  -0.2%.
– Retail sales (y / y) (Aug), forecast 2.2%, previous value  1.5%.

At 04:30 – private sector credit (m / m) (Aug) in Australia, forecast 0.4%,  previous value 0.4%.

At 04:45 – Caixin index of business activity in the manufacturing sector of China (PMI)  (Sep), forecast 50.5,  previous value 50.6.

At 10:55 – employment data in Germany:
– Unemployment change  (Sep), forecast -9K, previous value -8K.
– Unemployment rate (Sept), forecast 5.2%,  previous value  5.2%.

At 11:30 – UK GDP data:
– Business investment (q/q) (Q2), forecast 0.5%, previous value 0.5%.
– Current account balance (Q2), forecast -19.4B, previous value -17.7B.
– GDP (y/y) (Q2), forecast 1.3%, previous value 1.3%.
– GDP (q/q) (Q2), forecast 0.4%,  previous value  0.4%.

At 12:00 –  preliminary data on consumer prices in the euro area:
– Core consumer price index (CPI) (y / y), forecast 1.1%, previous value 1.0%.
– Consumer price index (CPI) (y / y) (Sept), forecast 2.1%, previous value 2.0%.

At 15:30 –  data on the US:
– Core price index for personal consumption expenditure (m / m) (Aug), forecast 0.1%, previous value 0.2%.
– Core price index for personal consumption expenditure (y / y) (Aug), forecast 2.0%, previous value 2.0%.
– Personal spending (m / m) (Aug), forecast 0.3%,  previous value  0.4%.

Also at 15:30 –  data on Canada’s GDP:
– GDP (y / y),  previous value  2.4%.
– GDP (m / m) (July), forecast 0.1%,  previous value  0.0%.
– Raw Materials Price Index (RMPI) (m / m) (Aug), forecast -1.5%, previous value 0.7%.

At 16:45 – index of business activity (PMI) in Chicago (Sep), forecast  62.3,  previous value  63.6.

At 20:00 –   number of oil rigs from Baker Hughes,  previous value 866.

Hanzenko Anton