Economic growth will be the theme in the financial markets this week. Japan and the UK will announce data on economic growth in the second quarter of 2019, which could be a sentiment driving the market.
Japan will announce the preliminary reading of economic growth in the second quarter of 2019 on August 8. Market participants expect the Japanese economy to slow down quite badly. Market consensus gathered by Reuters estimates that the quarterly annualized economy of the Rising Sun Country is 0.4%.
Slower than the quarter I-2019 which is 2.2%. Understandably, Japanese exports have contracted alias dropped for seven consecutive months due to the trade war of the United States (US) -China and a slowdown in the global economy. Japan's trade friction with South Korea made things even more complicated.
The slowdown in the UK economy has been seen from the Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) data. In July, the IHS Markit / CIPS UK manufacturing PMI was at 48, the lowest in the past 6.5 years. "In July, we saw the manufacturing sector 'suffocated' because of the global economic slowdown.