Week Ahead 17 April: US earnings; China, UK data
IGTV’s Jeremy Naylor caught up with IG chief technical analyst, Axel Rudolph FSTA, for his thoughts on how best to trade the week ahead.
US earnings take centre stage
Following some good numbers from JPMorgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, hopes will be raised for the US banks reporting in the coming week. These include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and BNY Mellon.
Then there’s tech stocks to watch out for including Netflix, Tesla, and IBM.
FX markets
For those in the FX markets there’s a plethora of interesting data to follow including China GDP, retail sales and unemployment, while in the UK there’s inflation, jobs data, retail sales, and consumer confidence.
Flash PMI
Lastly at the end of the week we see a ton of flash PMI data that will help give a forward look in Japan, the UK, the US, and across the eurozone.
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