10 things you need to know before European markets open
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Markets brace for big data dump from the US. Markets will move on new unemployment data from the US at 12:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m. ET). Non-farm payroll data will be published, as well as an updated unemployment rate. The analyst consensus is a 0.1% drop to 5.2%.
G20 finance ministers and central bankers meet in Turkey. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he had asked them to prepare strategies to boost global growth. Meanwhile Japanese finance minister said it was time to have a "frank debate" about China's slowing growth.
Asian shares rose slightly overnight. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.1 percent while Japan's Nikkei also ticked up 0.1 percent. The Chinese markets are still closed for a national holiday.
There are rumours that Brazil's finance minister is about to step down. Joaquin Levy, Brazil's finance minister, canceled a planned trip to the G20 meeting in Turkey and went into a closed-doors meeting with Rousseff, before leaving without comment.
German factory order figures are coming. At 7 a.m. UK time (2 a.m. ET) Germany's Bundesbank publishes data on factory orders. for last month . The market consensus is for a 0.5% decline.
France publishes consumer confidence figures. The French economy is a concern at the heart of the Eurozone. Data on consumer confidence for August is published at 7:45a.m. (2:45 a.m. ET) today.
Crunch UN talks on climate change enter their final day. Diplomats have lamented the "snail's pace" of this week's haggle in Bonn, accusing one another of rehashing well-rehearsed positions and holding up the real work of line-by-line text bartering.
Hong Kong's PMI guauge just slumped to its lowest since 2009. The measure of private sector business conditions in Hong Kong came out at 44.4, its lowest since April 2009. Anything under 50 signals a contraction.
China's coal imports collapsed. Figures published show China imported 9.7 million tonnes of thermal coal in the year upt to July, a massive 24.6% decline on the year earlier. Slowing growth and pollution concerns are to blame.
Boeing books a huge plane order from UK airline Jet2.com. The US aircraft maker said Jet2.com ordered 27 of its 737-800 planes, worth about $2.6 billion at list prices, according to Reuters. The move will boost Jet2.com's fleet to 87 aircraft.
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