Australia: ANZ Roy Morgan Consumer Sentiment for the week ended December 7: -3.1% to 110.4

Japan: November, M2 Money Stock: 3.6% y/y vs 3.2% y/y

UK: November, BRC Retail Sales Monitor: 0.9% y/y vs 0.0% y/y

Australia: November, NAB Business Confidence: 1 vs 5

Japan finance minister Aso: Doesn’t think Japan is in a recession

Japan: November, Prelim Machine Tool Orders: 36.6% y/y vs 30.8% y/y

UK: Manufacturing Production -0.7m/m +1,7%yr/yr

UK: NIESR GDP Estimate 0.7% vs 0.7%

USA: JOLTS Job Openings 4.83M vs 4.74M

USA: Wholesale Inventories +0.4%m/m

ECB, Praet: We will likely have negative inflation in the context of falling inflation expectations

ECB, Praet: Inflation forecast will be ‘much lower’ than 0.7% due to oil