Phew, don’t know how the peeps out East cope with the volatile markets.

TGIF. May the boredom continue. Let’s hope for a really quiet market this morning ahead of the US GDP data this afternoon, so I can ease myself gently into the weekend. Well I can hope

;)

Nothing much in the way of data.

09:00 GMT: Euro zone M3 money supply for December. 3M till December +1.6%, +1.7% y/y

09:00 GMT: Italian hourly wages for December expected +0.2% m/m, +1.7% y/y

10:00 GMT: Italian consumer confidence index for January 108.9 from previous 109.1