020 7898 0500The US dollar performed well on Friday with risk aversion driving the market. Investors bought the US dollar – deemed to be a safe haven in times of crisis – as fears surrounding the emerging markets continued to dominate the headlines. On the data front, consumer sentiment figures came out largely as expected whilst household purchases rose by 0.4%.
Out this week are purchasing managers’ index figures for both the manufacturing and services sector. We also have a raft of labour data released over the coming week, the first of which is the ADP Non-Farm Employment Change statistics released on Wednesday, which acts as a precursor to the highly influential Non-Farm Employment Change figures on Friday – the latter are released alongside data showing the overall rate of unemployment in the country.
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