It's PMI day in European trading

Good day, everyone! Hope you're all doing well as we get things going in the session ahead. It's been a lively start to the morning with Australian politics garnering most of the headlines resulting the in currency being the weakest performer thus far.

The session ahead is a bit more of a busy one as we'll have a flurry of PMI releases from Europe so let's get into it:

0645 GMT - France August business and manufacturing confidence

General gauges of sentiment towards the French economy. Minor data points in the grand scheme of things.

0715 GMT - Switzerland Q2 industrial production data

Q1 figures can be found here. Not a major data point by any means but one that contributes to sentiment towards the Swiss economy.

0715 GMT - France August preliminary manufacturing, services, composite PMI

0730 GMT - Germany August preliminary manufacturing, services, composite PMI

0800 GMT - Eurozone August preliminary manufacturing, services, composite PMI

Prior figures can be found here and here. Expectations for August are for the composite readings to improve slightly across the board so let's see if there is any good news to help boost economic/investor sentiment towards the Eurozone economies. The releases here are not expected to impact the euro quite heavily but it builds into the longer-term expectations/view.

1000 GMT - UK CBI August retailing reported sales

The readings here are an indicator of short-term trends in the retail and wholesale sector of the UK economy. Low-tier data.

1130 GMT - ECB releases its account for the July monetary policy meeting

The minutes isn't expected to show anything that we don't already know and is likely to reinforce the same language we have seen from the ECB last month. A passable event but stay on your toes just in case. Here is a summary of the ECB's July decision.

Apart from that, we'll also be getting Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann speaking at the Berlin Foreign Press Club at 0730 GMT. He'll also be taking questions from the foreign media during the time. That's all for the session ahead. I wish you all the best of days ahead and as always, good luck with your trading!