There were some good results out for the UK last week, that said many of the numbers were still showing contraction albeit at a slower rate than expected. There was no surprise as the Bank of England left the rate untouched for another month.

In the US we had the non-farm payrolls on Friday which shocked the market at least temporarily.

As we look at the week ahead, we are really focused on the factory inflation reports and retail sales. The UK input inflation report has already been announced, coming in even lower than expected at -2.0 against -1.2% and -1.4% last time.

Monday 8th September

• 09:30 UK Producers Price Index
• 20:00 US Consumer credit

Tuesday 9th September

• 00:01 UK British Retail Consortium Retail sales monitor
• 00:01 UK RICS House price balance
• 00:01 UK NIESR GDP Estimate
• 09:30 UK Manufacturing Production
• 15:00 US Pending home sales
• 15:00 US Wholesale Inventories

Wednesday 10th September

• 09:30 UK Trade Balance
• 15:30 UK Conference Board Leading Index
• 15:35 US Crude Oil Inventories

Thursday 11th September

• 09:45 UK BoE MPC Treasury Committee hearings
• 13:30 US Trade Balance
• 13:30 US Jobless report

Friday 12th September

• 00:00 UK No results due
• 13:30 US Retail sales
• 13:30 US Producers Price Index
• 14:55 US University of Michigan Prelim Consumer sentiment
• 15:00 US Business Inventories

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