On the calendar for Friday

There's a ton of low impact releases tonight, but all the real calendar action starts pretty much immediately when Adam logs onto ForexLive later.

The ForexLive European session starting from 7.15 GMT:

  • CHF Swiss CPI m/m: -0.3% expected and 0.0% previous
  • EUR Spanish Services PMI: 54.4 expected and 55.4 previous
  • EUR Italian Services PMI: 53.6 expected and 54.3 previous
  • EUR French Final Services PMI: 55.3 expected and 55.3 previous
  • EUR German Final Services PMI: 54.4 expected and 54.4 previous
  • EUR Final Services PMI: 54.4 expected and 54.4 previous
  • EUR Italian Industrial Production m/m: 0.4% expected and 0.7% previous
  • GBP Services PMI: 54.7 expected and 55.1 previous
  • EUR Italian Retail Sales m/m: 0.1% expected and 0.8% previous
  • EUR Retail Sales m/m: 0.4% expected and 0.0% previous

Once Adam takes over into the ForexLive US session starting 12.30 GMT:

  • CAD Canadian Trade Balance: -2.3B expected and -2.8B previous
  • USD Average Hourly Earnings m/m: 0.3% expected and 0.2% previous
  • USD Non-Farm Employment Change: 191K expected and 213K previous
  • USD Unemployment Rate: 3.9% expected and 4.0% previous
  • USD Trade Balance: -46.5B expected and -43.1B previous
  • USD Final Services PMI: 56.2 expected and 56.2 previous
  • USD ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI: 58.6 expected and 59.1 previous

Keep your economic calendar of choice open and don't let yourself get caught out by a low liquidity news spike on your trading platform.

We've all been there...