Week Ahead
Week ahead: US FOMC, jobs report, French elections in focus
The coming week is replete with top-tier economic data and potential risk events.
Week ahead: French elections, UK GDP in focus
All eyes will turn to France next week, as investors digest the results of the first round of voting in the presidential elections and attempt to draw the correct implications for the economic outlook, both there as well as for the other electoral contests which still lay ahead on the Continent in 2017.
Week ahead: China and France in focus
China and France will centre the markets' attention, with data on the world's third largest economy set for release at the start of the week, even as the world watches for Beijing's reaction to North Korea's latest attempt to test a ballistic missile over the weekend, and presidential elections set to take place in the latter.
Week ahead: China, UK data in focus
The coming holiday-shortened week in the West will see the spotlight shift towards China, with traders likely to be eyeing the news-flow over the weekend coming out of the meetings between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US president Donald Trump.