Consumer prices from euro area, unemployment and retail sales from Germany are due on Wednesday, headlining a busy day for the European economic news.
At 2.00 am ET, the Office for National Statistics releases revised UK GDP data for the second quarter. The economy is forecast to shrink 20.4 percent sequentially, as initially estimated.
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May 01, 2026 15:54 ET Central banks dominated the economics news flow this week with almost all major ones announcing their latest policy decisions and many boosted expectations for a rate hike in June. In other news, several countries released the preliminary data for first quarter economic growth. In the U.S., comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell were also in focus as his term ends this month.