Week Ahead – Beleaguered dollar eyes first US jobs report of 2018; December PMIs in focus
Posted on December 28, 2017 at 4:32 pm GMTMarkets will begin to get back to normal in the first week of 2018 following the Christmas and New Year breaks. PMI surveys will dominate the economic calendar, but traders will likely be most looking forward to the US nonfarm payrolls report to inject much needed life into the lacklustre US dollar. The coming week will start a little early, on Sunday, as China releases the official manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs. The manufacturing PMI is forecast to ease slightly to [..]