英国7月央行消费信贷 20.06亿英镑，预期18亿英镑，前值由18.07亿英镑修正为18.65亿英镑。

With eight months to France’s presidential election, French assets are showing strain. France’s borrowing premium over Germany, a key sovereign-risk gauge, is nearing its highest level since the 2012 euro-area debt crisis. Stress has spread to French equities and corporate bonds, leaving French assets lagging peers. France’s fiscal deficit tops 5% of GDP, borrowing costs are rising and growth is weak, leaving the economy close to recession. Investors’ central question is how a successor would address these entrenched fiscal and growth challenges. In last week’s first presidential debate, far-right frontrunner Marine Le Pen and far-left Jean-Luc Mélenchon proposed contrasting measures including higher spending, a lower retirement age, partial cancellation of government debt and proposals to suspend certain payments to the EU.

Canada national economic confidence index 51.7 as of Aug 28, down from 52.8 previously.