With a US holiday today and little out in Europe, it is a quiet day on the economic front with the only upcoming data being Canadian Foreign Securities Purchases and Manufacturing Shipments m/m at 13:30 GMT all we have to look forward to as far as numbers go.

There are a couple of central bankers speaking globally with Bean from the BOE, Trichet from the ECB and Duke from the US Fed.

For a list of times and a table of today’s economic goings on please click here.