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Lots of economic dockets and events are scheduled for today and all with low to medium volatility risks associated.
Data released so far:
- Australia: Retail sales growth for July remained flat. Private capital expenditure down -5.4 percent in the second quarter.
- Japan: Nikkei manufacturing PMI for August came at 49.5.
- China: Non-manufacturing PMI marginally declined to 53.5 and NBS manufacturing PMI improved to 50.4 in August. Caixin manufacturing PMI came at 50 for August.
Upcoming:
- Spain: Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 7:15 GMT.
- Switzerland: Real retail sales for August and SVME PMI report will be released at 7:15 and 7:30 GMT respectively.
- Italy: Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 7:45 GMT.
- France: Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 7:50 GMT.
- Germany: Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 7:55 GMT.
- Greece: Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 8:00 GMT.
- Eurozone: Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 8:00 GMT
- UK: Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 8:30 GMT.
- United States: Weekly jobless claims report will be released at 12:30 GMT along with unit labor costs and non-farm productivity for the second quarter. Markit manufacturing is scheduled for release at 13:45 GMT. ISM manufacturing PMI report will be released at 14:00 GMT. EIA will release weekly natural gas inventory report at 14:30 GMT.
- Canada: RBC manufacturing PMI report will be released at
