What are the main events for today?

It’s going to be kind of a synthetic Sunday today as we have a pretty empty calendar today. The only notable release will be the German IFO. The IFO index is correlated with the German Composite PMI, so it shouldn’t be a big deal.

Watch out for Trump’s headlines as he is scheduled to speak at 19:00 GMT/14:00 ET at a press conference with the President of France Macron. Also, note that he’s going to participate in a G7 leaders call at 13:00 GMT/08:00 ET.

Central bank speakers:

• 09:00 GMT – BoE’s Lombardelli (neutral – voter)
• 09:20 GMT – Fed’s Logan (neutral – non voter)
• 13:15 GMT/08:15 ET – BoE’s Ramsden (dove – voter)
• 13:15 GMT/08:15 ET – BoC’s Gravelle (neutral – voter)
• 16:45 GMT/11:45 ET – Fed’s Barr (dove – voter)
• 18:00 GMT/13:00 ET – BoE’s Dhingra (uber dove – voter)

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