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Not many economic dockets scheduled for today. Focus is on BOE interest rate decision.
Data released so far -
- Australia - Investment lending for homes dropped by -3.2% in May, with home loans dropping by -6.1%.
- Germany - Wholesale price index dropped -0.5% in June from a year ago.
- Japan - Consumer confidence index rose to 41.7 in June from 41.4 prior.
- France - Industrial output rose 0.4% in May on monthly basis. Current account came at € 0.3 billion in May.
Upcoming -
- Italy - Industrial output scheduled at 8:00 GMT.
- UK - Trade balance for May to be released at 8:30 GMT.
- India - Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will release FX reserve details at 11:00 GMT. Industrial and manufacturing output to be released at 12:00 GMT.
- US - Two FED presidents are scheduled to speak today. Boston FED president Rosengren at 15:35 GMT and FED chair Janet Yellen at 16:00 GMT.
- Canada - Employment statistics to be released at 12:30 GMT.
