This week’s exchange rate outlook

Plenty of news due out this week which is likely to affect commercial exchange rates – whichever currencies you need to buy or sell, contact Currency Index for our views on the market.

UK Data
Monday (overnight) – retail sales and RICS house prices
Tuesday (9.30am) – CPI & RPI inflation figures
Wednesday (9.30am) – unemplyment rate for May

European Data
Monday (11.30am) – ECB President Trichet’s speech
Tuesday (10am) – industrial production data
Wednesday (10am) – CPI inflation

Amercian Data
Tuesday (1.30pm) – PPI inflation and retail sales for June
Wednesday (1.30pm) – CPI inflation
Wednesday (7pm) – minutes from the last FOMC meeting
Thursday (3pm) – manufacturing survey

Other Data
Canada – Monday (1.30pm) – Bank of Canada business outlook survey
Australia – Tuesday (2.30am) – key business confidence data
Switzerland – Wednesday (8.15am) – May retail sales