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  • Welcome to the Investors Trading Academy economic calendar of the week. Each week our news analysts

  • review the upcoming economic events that you should be monitoring during the week.

  • As the new month unfolds there are a lot of major data events scheduled for the week.

  • Earnings will begin to tone down as most of the majors have released their data.

  • The week kicks off on Saturday with China’s National Bureau of Statistics releasing Purchasing

  • Managers index gauges for both the services and manufacturing sectors. The private sector

  • Caixin manufacturing PMI is released on Monday with the services index on Wednesday.

  • Also in Asia this week there are a few significant events including the RBA meeting on Tuesday.

  • The majority of economists expect no change to interest rates although the accompanying

  • statement will be looked at very closely to garner clues about future rate moves.

  • The first week of August's will see two keenly watched economic releases, one on each side

  • of the Atlantic. The Bank of England's policy announcement on Thursday, meeting minutes

  • from the Monetary Policy Committee and the latest Inflation Report will for the first

  • time all be released simultaneously. Friday's jobs data is expected to show the

  • U.S. economy created 222,000 new jobs in July. Also, the unemployment rate is expected to

  • hold steady at 5.3 percent. Investors will be keeping an eye on the job growth numbers

  • as the U.S. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen has made it clear she's looking out for "some"

  • improvement in the job market before voting for the first Fed interest rate rise in nearly

  • a decade. On Wednesday, the ADP National Employment

  • Report is likely to show U.S. private employers added 215,000 jobs in July, down from a previous

  • month's 237,000 jobs. Also, next week's focus will be on Wednesday's data on services sector

  • growth, business activity index and employment index from the Institute for Supply Management.

  • Separately, on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's figures on new orders for manufactured goods

  • is expected to have increased 1.8 percent in June after a drop of 1.0 percent in May.

Welcome to the Investors Trading Academy economic calendar of the week. Each week our news analysts

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