LONDON (ShareCast) - (ShareCast News) - 1358: JP Morgan published third quarter earnings per share of 37 cents (consensus: 35 cents) alongside an EPS of $1.05 out of Wells Fargo (consensus: $1.04).
1331: Factory gate prices Stateside fell at a 0.5% month-on-month pace in September, their biggest drop since January.

1330: US retail sales volumes edged higher by 0.1% over the month in September (consensus: 0.2%), although August's tally was revised to a flat reading instead of a rise of 0.2%. "The softness of September's retail sales figures supports our view that the Fed probably isn't going to hike interest rates until early next year," says Paul Ashworth at Capital Economics. He estimated third quarter real consumption growth was running at around 3% instead of the 3.6% he had been projecting before the latest data.

1136: US private equity outfit Blackrock announces third quarter earnings per share of $5 (consensus: $4.53).

1000: Eurozone industrial production shrank by 0.5% month-on-month in August, as expected by economists.

0930: UK claimant count increased by 4,600 in September (consensus: -2,200) after a rise of 1,200 in the month before. Average weekly earnings advanced at a 3% year-on-year clip in August, up from the prior month's reading of 2.9% (consensus: 3.1%).

0915: McCarthy&Stone announces intention to float on the LSE's main market.

0853: Stocks have started the day on the backfoot tracking overnight losses on Wall Street. A weaker than expected print on Chinese consumer prices for September has not helped matters much either. Hargreaves Lansdowne and Dominos Pizza are at the top of their respective leaderboards on the Footsie and over on the second-tier index. UK employment data is due out at 09:30. US retail sales data for September is scheduled for release at 13:30. It was that report, one year ago now, that set off the 'flash crash' in US Treasuries, Deutsche Bank points out. FTSE 100 down 69 points to 6,272.94.

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