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Lots of economic dockets and events are scheduled for today but all with low to medium volatility risks associated.
Data released so far:
- Australia: Building permits grew by 11.7 percent in July, up 3.1 percent from a year back.
- Germany: Import price declined by 3.8 percent in July, up 0.1 percent on yearly basis.
Upcoming:
- Spain: Flash HICP inflation for August will be released today.
- Switzerland: KOF leading indicator will be released at 7:00 GMT, followed by employment report for the second quarter at 7:15 GMT.
- Italy: Retail sales report for the month of June is scheduled for release at 8:00 GMT.
- United Kingdom: Consumer credit, money supply, and mortgage approvals reports will be released at 8:30 GMT. GFK consumer confidence for August will be released at 14:00 GMT.
- Greece: producer price index for July will be announced at 9:00 GMT.
- Eurozone: Sentiment reports for the month of August will be reported at 9:00 GMT.
- Portugal: Business and consumer confidence will be announced today.
- Germany: HICP inflation report will be released at 12:00 GMT.
- Canada: Raw material price and industrial product price and current account for second quarter, all detail will be released at 12:30 GMT.
- United States: S&P 500/ Case-Shiller home prices will be released at 13:00 GMT.
- Japan: Flash Industrial production for July report will be released at 23:50 GMT.
- Auctions: Italy would auction 5-year and 10-year bond today. US will auction 1-month bill at 15:30 GMT.
