Tuesday brought UK Industrial Production data. Total production output is estimated to have decreased by 0.7% between October 2015 and November 2015. Analysts were anticipating no change. There were decreases in all of the main sectors, with manufacturing, mining & quarrying and electricity & gas having the largest contributions to the decrease. Manufacturing output decreased by 0.4% in November 2015 compared with October 2015. The largest contribution to the decrease came from the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products & pharmaceutical preparations, which decreased by 4.9%.
In the US session
JOLTS Job Openings figures were released
. Job openings were little changed at 5.4 million in November. The job openings rate was 3.7%. The number of job openings was little changed in November for total private and government. Job openings increased in health care and social assistance (+57,000) and decreased in retail trade (-64,000). In the regions, job openings increased in the South and decreased in the Midwest over the month.
There will be no data releases from the UK tomorrow. No change is predicted. In the US session Crude Oil Inventories figures are scheduled for a release. Analysts are forecasting increase to 1.9 million.
Figures to watch:
Crude Oil Inventories (Wednesday 16:00)