What are the main events for today?

Today is the Flash PMIs Day for the Eurozone, the UK and the US. We will also get the Canadian Retail Sales and the Final UMich Consumer Sentiment data although they are unlikely to be market moving.

• Eurozone Manufacturing PMI: 46.0 expected vs. 46.0
  prior.
• Eurozone Services PMI: 51.6 expected vs. 51.6
  prior.
• UK Manufacturing PMI: 50.0 expected vs. 49.9
  prior.
• UK Services PMI: 52.0 expected vs. 52.0 prior.
• US Manufacturing PMI: 48.8 expected vs. 48.5
  prior.
• US Services PMI: 55.2 expected vs. 55.0 prior.

Central bank speakers:

• 08:30 GMT – ECB’s Lagarde (neutral – voter)
• 08:40 GMT – ECB’s de Guindos (dove – voter)
• 13:00 GMT/08:00 ET – ECB’s Nagel (neutral – voter)
• 13:00 GMT/08:00 ET – ECB’s Villeroy (dove – voter)
• 12:40 GMT/07:40 ET – SNB’s Schlegel
• 15:45 GMT/10:45 ET – ECB’s Schnabel (neutral – voter)
• 23:15 GMT/18:15 ET – Fed’s Bowman (hawk – voter)

This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at www.forexlive.com.