The future contracts on Wall Street pointing to an increases of up to 0.2% leading indices.
Last Friday the stock markets closed with a mixed trend and completed a fifth consecutive month of increases.
Month: August 2016
Breaking news – 09:30 (GMT+1)
UK:
The purchasing managers index for July, the first measure since the kingdom has decided to disengage from the EU pointed to 48.2 points compared with 49.1 points recorded in June, when it was the analysts’ forecasts as well.
Reading below 50 points indicates about an economic contraction.
Market News Briefing – 07:30 (GMT+1)
A decline in production in China
According to figures released today, the official purchasing managers’ index of the Chinese government fell to 49.9 points in July, compared to 50 points in June.
The index was also lower than what the analysts expected, a rise to 50.1 points.
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