Proactive Investors - FTSE 100 is expected to open flat ahead of retail sales figures which will give a further indicator as to the confidence levels of UK consumers.
Spread betting companies are calling London’s lead index down by around 2 points.
On Wall Street, stocks ended lower as disappointing earnings from AT&T (NYSE:T) and heavy falls in Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) weighed on equities.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 110.39 points, or 0.3%, at 33,786.55. The S&P 500 declined 24.73 points, or 0.6%, at 4,129.79, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 97.67 points, or 0.8%, to 12,059.56.
In Asia, markets fell. The Nikkei 225 index was down 0.3%, the Shanghai Composite was down 1.4%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was down 1.2%.
Back in London, the early focus will be retail sales figures while a slew of PMI prints is due later today in the UK, EU, and US.
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