UK PM May’s speech and central bank speakers amongst market movers today – Danske Bank

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to speak today to mark her first anniversary as PM and will be amongst market movers for the day.

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“Yesterday, the BBC wrote that the speech will be about May urging other parties 'to come forward with your own views and ideas' with respect to (among other things) Brexit.”

“It is a very thin calendar in terms of data releases with the only figure of interest being the US NFIB small business optimism, which is estimated to remain at the current high level.”

“There are a few central bank speeches including the ECB's Benoît CSuré, who is due to provide opening remarks at the FX meeting in Frankfurt and the Fed's Lael Brainard, who is set to give the keynote address on 'Normalising Central Banks' Balance Sheets' at a conference in New York.”