Friday preview: Manufacturing PMIs in focus
Manufacturing sector conditions on both sides of the Atlantic will be in focus at the end of the week, especially those on this side of the Pond, and in the euro area more specifically.
At 0900 BST, IHS Markit will release its 'flash' Purchasing Managers's Indices for Eurozone manufacturing and services in the month of June.
Despite talk that the 'soft patch' in economic growth seen over the first quarter of 2018 might be over, worries on the global trade front have increased of late.
More poignantly, according to companies such as Daimler, just on Thursday, they are already impacting on their sales, prompting the carmaker's 'profit warning'.
In parallel, other so-called 'soft' data, such as the ZEW Institute's confidence index for Germany, which is based on analysts' opinions on the outlook, surprised to the downside as recently as 12 June, falling by 7.9 points to -16.1 - its lowest level since September 2012.
Alongside the above, at 1400 BST the Belgian central bank will publish its own business confidence index - which tends to correlate well with the IFO institute's own for Germany - for the month of June.
It will be followed by IHS Markit's US factory sector PMI at 1445 BST.
Acting as a backdrop, overnight investors will be monitoring the content of BoE Governor Mark Carney's Mansion House speech and the headlines on the global trade front.
No UK companies are scheduled to publish results on Friday.
Friday June 22
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