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Lots of economic dockets and events scheduled for today and all with low to medium volatility risks associated.
Data released so far:
- Australia: National banks’ business conditions index improves sharply to 14 in March from 9 in February but business confidence declines from 7 to 6.
Upcoming:
- Japan: Flash Machine tools orders report will be released at 6:00 GMT. Domestic corporate goods price index will be updated at 23:50 GMT. At the same time, Machinery orders report will be released.
- United Kingdom: Inflation report containing CPI, PPI, RPI and HPI will be released at 8:30 GMT.
- Germany: Zew survey report for April will be released at 9:00 GMT.
- Eurozone: Zew survey report and industrial production report will be published at 9:00 GMT.
- United States: NFIB business optimism index will be released at 10:00 GMT, followed by JOLTS jobs report at 14:00 GMT. Fed’s Kashkari’s speech is at 17:45 GMT.
- Auction: U.S. will auction 1-months bills at 15:30 GMT and 10-year note at 17:00 GMT.
