MARKETS

European IPO volume beat the US and Asia combined during the first quarter.

Janet Yellen is scheduled to speak this week as well.

Hedge fund manager Pierre Andurand warns crude prices could drop to $30 amid concerns of Middle East supply disruptions.

Tensions in the Middle East and negotiations in Greece could help boost the metal's safe-haven status.

The USD index ended last week 0.53% down extending the 2.4% drop of the previous week.

Goldman Sachs has offered Chevron's 135 million Caltex shares to local and international investors on 27 March.

End of the week profit booking also pushes oil prices down but upward channel since mid-January is back in focus opening doors to new highs.

Crude prices fall by $1 a barrel despite Saudi-led bombing campaign in neighbouring Yemen.

More hawkish signals from the US will soon see the peso at new lows.

More important US data and comments by Fed's Stanley Fisher and Janet Yellen are due.

MPs have given the regulator a thorough shoeing over last years's insurance market pre-briefing bungle

World Gold Council says US centric explanations about gold prices are risky for investors.

UK government had announced tax cuts in bid to increase investment in North Sea oil and gas.

Factory gate inflation in Sweden quickened to 1.9% y/y in February from 0.2% a month ago.

Ships crossing from the Middle East to Europe must pass Yemeni strait of Bab el-Mandab.

The market consensus is for a hold of the current 4% rate.

Durable goods orders data disappointed and Chicago Fed president Charles Evans comments were dovish.

Bitcoin price plummets while 85% of businesses express doubts about cryptocurrency.

Ihor Kolomoisky removed from Dnipropetrovsk post over an oil firm dispute.

Chicago Fed's Charles Evans said low inflation would make a rate hike this year risky.

Libyan Islamist militants have pledged allegiance to Isis and carried out atrocities.

US oil magnate and BP Capital boss T Boone Pickens says the idea of 'peak oil' should not be dismissed.

Smith remains highly sceptical over shale oil extraction.

State-owned Aramco has an over 10% market share in China and now wants to boost supplies, says CEO Khalid Al-Falih.

If forecasters prove right, euro will rise to new highs later in the day.

US core CPI at 1.7% y/y in March vs 1.6% in February, consensus 1.6%.

Eurozone business activity has grown at the fastest rate for four years, Markit said.

German and eurozone Markit PMI data and CPI/PPI numbers from the UK are awaited in European session.

China HSBC/Markit manufacturing PMI falls to 49.2 in March from 50.7 in February.