Forex Investment and Currency Trading

The highlight of next week will be Chancellor Darling’s Pre-Budget Report to Parliament on Monday. Key data releases in the US include consumer confidence (Tuesday), personal income and spending, Chicago PMI, Michigan consumer sentiment and new home sales (Wednesday). In the euro area, we get German IFO (Monday), German preliminary Q3 GDP (Tuesday), German preliminary HICP/CPI (Wednesday), E15 consumer confidence, industrial confidence and German unemployment (Thursday) and E15 ‘flash’ HICP (Friday). Elsewhere, we get Canada retail sales (Tuesday), NZ trade data (Wednesday), Japan CPI and industrial production (Thursday).