Liveblog Archief woensdag 6 januari 2021

TOP NEWS
• Democrats on brink of U.S. Senate control, winning one Georgia race and leading in second
Democrats won one U.S. Senate race in Georgia and surged ahead in another, moving closer to a stunning sweep that would give them control of the chamber and the power to advance President-elect Joe Biden's policy goals.

PREVIEW: Fed minutes may shed light on bond plans, views of vaccine
The Federal Reserve's decision in December to leave its monthly bond purchases unchanged dismayed analysts and investors who thought the central bank should have expanded the program to better support the economy through the coronavirus pandemic.

• Euro zone contraction deeper than thought in Dec but optimism rose
Euro zone economic activity contracted more sharply than previously thought at the end of 2020 and could get worse this month as renewed restrictions to contain the coronavirus hit the bloc's dominant service industry, a survey showed.

• UnitedHealth to buy Change Healthcare for $7.84 billion to build up technology services
UnitedHealth Group has agreed to buy Change Healthcare for $7.84 billion in cash, the companies said, to beef up its portfolio of healthcare technology services.

• Alibaba plans $5 billion bond this month amid regulatory scrutiny – sources
China's Alibaba Group plans to raise at least $5 billion through the sale of a U.S. dollar-denominated bond this month, four people with knowledge of the matter said, amid regulatory scrutiny of co-founder Jack Ma's empire.


BEFORE THE BELL
Nasdaq futures sank, as investors priced in a Democrat win in the U.S. Senate election in Georgia that could result in regulatory scrutiny of technology companies. Most Asian equity markets ended with losses. Prospect of additional stimulus under a Democrat-controlled Senate pushed European stocks higher, while dollar dipped. Gold prices inched lower. Oil rose, after Saudi Arabia agreed to reduce output more than expected in a meeting with allied producers and after data showed lower U.S. stockpiles last week. National employment report is due for release later during the day.​


STOCKS TO WATCH
Deals Of The Day
• Carlyle Group Inc: U.S. buyout firm Carlyle Group said it will buy Japan's Rigaku Corp, confirming a media report from earlier in the day that put the deal value at about $1 billion, as the manufacturer of X-ray-based testing tools plans to go public. Carlyle will own about 80% of Rigaku while 20% stake will remain with the chief executive officer of Rigaku, the U.S. firm said in a statement, but did not provide details of the deal value. Earlier in the day, the Nikkei business daily said Carlyle's investment is expected to be about $972.9 million. By partnering with Carlyle, Rigaku "will seek to list the holding company in the coming years," the Japanese company said in a separate statement, adding that its annual revenue stands at about 44 billion yen, around two-thirds of which were generated overseas.

• PPG Industries Inc: Tikkurila Oyj on Tuesday agreed to PPG Industries Inc's increased buyout offer of $1.52 billion after the Finnish paint maker received a competing proposal. Tikkurila shareholders would get 27.75 euros in cash for each Tikkurila stock they own, up from PPG's prior offer of 25 euros per share, the companies said. The offer price represents a premium of about 84.5% to Tikkurila's closing price on Dec. 17, the last trading day before PPG announced the initial offer. Both companies expect the tender offer, which values Tikkurila at 1.22 billion euros, for all outstanding shares to commence on or around Jan. 15, with the deal expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. The board of directors of Tikkurila has unanimously decided to recommend that its shareholders accept the tender offer, with certain major shareholders reaffirming their support for the deal.

• UnitedHealth Group Inc and Change Healthcare Inc: UnitedHealth Group has agreed to buy Change Healthcare for $7.84 billion in cash, the companies said, to beef up its portfolio of healthcare technology services. The health insurer will pay $25.75 per Change Healthcare share in cash, a premium of 41.2% to Tuesday's closing price. The acquisition is expected to add to UnitedHealth's adjusted earnings per share by about 50 cents in 2022. Change Healthcare's platform, which manages revenue, payment cycles and clinical information, and Optum's data analytics solutions will help simplify clinical, administrative and payment processes, the companies said.

In Other News
• Alibaba Group Holding Ltd: The company plans to raise at least $5 billion through the sale of a U.S. dollar-denominated bond this month, four people with knowledge of the matter said, amid regulatory scrutiny of co-founder Jack Ma's empire. Depending on investor response, proceeds could reach $8 billion which the e-commerce leader is likely to use for general corporate expenditure, one of the people said. The fundraising will be a test of investor sentiment towards Alibaba, amid a regulatory crackdown on it and financial technology affiliate Ant Group. The bond sale plan, including timeline, is not finalised and is subject to change, the people said, declining to be identified as they were not authorised to speak to the media. Alibaba declined to comment.

• Alphabet Inc: Google said on Tuesday it will add App Store privacy labels to applications using the iOS operating system from Apple as soon as this week or by next week. The new policy requires developers to disclose how data is collected from App Store users and used to track them, a Google spokeswoman said, confirming an earlier report from TechCrunch. Last month, Apple began the rollout of new labels about the privacy practices of apps for users to see before they are downloaded from its App Store.

• Apple Inc: The company said in its annual proxy filing on Tuesday that it will modify executive cash bonuses based on whether the executives act within the company's social and environmental values. But the iPhone maker did not specify how it would evaluate progress toward the company's publicly stated targets such as removing carbon from its supply chain. "Beginning in 2021, an environmental, social, and governance modifier based on Apple Values and other key community initiatives will be incorporated into our annual cash incentive program," the filing said. The compensation committee of its board of directors will use the new modifier to increase or decrease bonus payouts by up to 10% "based on the Compensation committee’s evaluation of our named executive officers’ performance with respect to Apple Values and other key community initiatives during 2021."

• China Mobile Ltd, China Telecom Corp Ltd and China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd: The New York Stock Exchange is reconsidering its plan to allow three Chinese telecom giants to remain listed, the latest twist to a saga amid confusion over rules set by the Trump administration and tension within Washington on China policy. If it does so, it would mark a second sudden U-turn. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin phoned New York Stock Exchange President Stacey Cunningham on Tuesday to tell her he disagreed with the exchange operator's decision to reverse course on the delistings, a separate source said. The Treasury declined comment on the NYSE decision. OFAC, which is responsible for enforcing sanctions, declined comment. The flip-flopping at the Big Board also sowed confusion among investors. S&P Dow Jones Indices said on Wednesday it would no longer remove the three firms' ADRs, which had been due to be deleted before Jan.7, from its benchmarks after the NYSE's latest decision.

• CNH Industrial NV: The company has revived talks to sell the bulk of Italian truck group Iveco to Chinese automaker FAW Group, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The latest talks come as Changchun-based FAW, which makes heavy duty trucks under its Jiefang brand, looks to expand outside China in the next couple of years, said one of the sources familiar with Jiefang's thinking. FAW has made an improved offer in the latest discussions and wants to acquire all of Iveco's commercial vehicles business, including trucks and buses, as well as a minority stake in its FPT engine division, a second source said. An investment in Iveco will help FAW's Jiefang brand to gain access to the international commercial vehicles market, the first source added. Separately, Iveco is in talks to jointly develop autonomous truck technologies with Chinese startup Plus, which has a tie-up with Jiefang, one of the sources said.

• General Motors Co: The carmaker's vehicle sales in China fell 6.2% in 2020, as the U.S. automaker suffered a prolonged sales slowdown in the world's biggest auto market. GM, China's second biggest foreign automaker, delivered 2.9 million vehicles in the country last year, the company said, for a third straight decline in annual sales. But sales have been recovering in the second half of last year, up 12% between July and September and 14% in the final three months. Sales of its Buick brand grew 4% on the year and Wuling rose 9%, the statement said. Luxury brand Cadillac's sales increased 8%. Sales of GM's more affordable Baojun brand dropped 33% last year, while sales of its mass-market Chevrolet tumbled 30%. GM had delivered 3.09 million vehicles in China in 2019 and 3.65 million vehicles in 2018.

• Honda Motor Co: The carmaker is offering voluntary retirement to some permanent employees at its motorcycles and scooters unit in India amid slowing demand there following the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said. The letter said the scheme was open to permanent employees who have completed 10 years of service or are over 40 as of Jan. 31, 2021. Depending on the number of years of service, a senior manager or vice president could be eligible for a payout of 7.2 million rupees ($98,488), the letter showed. While it was not immediately clear how many employees would qualify, the letter said the first 400 people to opt for retirement would get an additional 500,000 rupees. HMSI had more than 7,000 employees across its four plants in India as of March 31, 2020, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Ingredion Inc: The company said on Tuesday it has stopped ethanol production at its manufacturing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, making it the latest company to cut ethanol output after the coronavirus pandemic choked demand for fuel. The coronavirus pandemic battered the U.S. ethanol industry, at one point halving its production capacity. Production capacity as of Jan. 1, 2020 was 1.13 million barrels per day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Though the Cedar Rapids facility will continue to manufacture industrial starch, Ingredion decided to stop ethanol production because of current market conditions, Becca Hary, a company spokeswoman, said.

• Macy's Inc: Department store operator Macy's said on Tuesday it would close about 45 stores this year as part of its three-year plan to lower store count in order to focus on its more productive outlets. Even before the lockdowns in the United States last year, Macy's had announced the plan to close 125 of its least productive stores to tackle plummeting mall traffic. It had closed about 30 stores in 2020. Macy's, which operates over 750 shops, including Bluemercury, Bloomingdale's and its eponymous stores, said it would post a list of stores expected to be closed this year on its website on Wednesday.

• Moderna Inc: Scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Moderna may take about two months to determine whether doses of the company's COVID-19 vaccine can be halved to double the supply of the shots in the U.S., according to the agency. The news comes as the country grapples with a surge in cases, with the number of vaccinations falling far short of early targets. The FDA said on Monday the idea of changing the authorized dosing or schedules of COVID-19 vaccines was premature and not supported by available data.

• Pfizer Inc: Peru's health minister said on Tuesday that "controversy" had arisen over a liability waiver in the country's negotiations to obtain COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer. Pilar Mazzetti told Congress that Peruvian officials had been in "constant contact" with Pfizer since July but that a dispute arose in their negotiations in December. She said she could not give details because of a confidentiality agreement but added that they related to "the waiving of important elements such as ... jurisdictional immunity." Separately, Colombia's food and drug regulator on Tuesday authorized emergency use of Pfizer and BioNTech SE's COVID-19 vaccine, President Ivan Duque said on Tuesday, joining other countries that have already approved coronavirus vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which has shown a 95% success rate, was formally approved by the National Institute of Food and Drug Surveillance (Invima).

• Sinopec Corp: China's Sinopec said it had completed building the first phase of a new shale gas field, Weirong, in southwestern Sichuan province with an annual production capacity of 1 billion cubic meters of natural gas. With an average well depth of 3,750 meters (2.33 miles) beneath earth's surface, Sinopec has tapped proven reserves of 124.7 bcm at the deep shale gas field. Under the first phase of development that started around late 2019, Sinopec said it had drilled 56 wells attached to eight drilling platforms. Sinopec, Asia's biggest oil refiner, will proceed to Phase-II development that will lift Weirong's annual output capacity to 3 bcm in 2022, or sufficient to cover 16 million households' annual consumption of the fuel. Currently, Weirong is pumping 3.5 million cubic meters of gas a day.

• Tiffany & Co: U.S. jeweler Tiffany & Co said it reported record sales for the 2020 holiday period as consumers stuck at home shopped more online and shoppers in China spent more on jewelry. The company, which will soon be bought by France's LVMH, said its overall preliminary net sales rose about 2% for the period Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, compared with a year earlier, with e-commerce sales surging more than 80% during the period. Tiffany, known for its engagement rings and robin's egg blue boxes, said net sales in the Asia-Pacific region soared 20%, with mainland China posting a growth of over 50%. However, net sales in Americas and Europe declined as it lost out on some crucial in-store sales in certain markets.

• Wells Fargo & Co: The bank said on Tuesday the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) had terminated a 2015 consent order related to an anti-money laundering compliance program after the bank took steps to remedy the problems. The end of the consent order is a positive sign for the bank, which has been trying to repair its frayed relationship with regulators, particularly the OCC, which has taken a tough line on the fourth-largest lender in the United States. Wells Fargo is still working on a separate 2018 sweeping OCC consent order related to the mis-selling of mortgage and auto-insurance products, which imposes a number of constraints on the bank's business. Wells Fargo said on Tuesday it had undertaken significant work to enhance its bank secrecy act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program.


SPECIAL REPORT
U.S. regulators ignored workers' COVID-19 safety complaints amid deadly outbreaks
Miguel Cabezola, a driver for United Parcel Service in Tucson, Arizona, complained on March 27 to U.S. workplace safety regulators, alleging the company was taking a lax approach to social distancing, sanitizing equipment and quarantining workers with COVID-19 symptoms. He hoped for an inspection of the facility that would force changes to protect worker safety. Instead, the state arm of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) summarized Cabezola's concerns in an email to company management, reviewed the UPS response and closed the file. Over the next two months, a COVID-19 outbreak infected more than 40 Tucson UPS workers - including a manager who eventually died - and caused delivery delays throughout southern Arizona, according to interviews with six Tucson UPS workers and local union officials of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.


ANALYSTS' RECOMMENDATION
• Beyond Meat Inc: Piper Sandler cuts target price to $125 from $144, on a belief that the company’s current retail momentum lags consensus expectations and as they see potential for another quarter of under-shipments in the fourth quarter.

• HollyFrontier Corp: JPMorgan raises target price to $29 from $26, on improved macro environment and to reflect solid free cash flow generation from the company in refining space.

• Intuitive Surgical Inc: JPMorgan raises target price to $825 from $785, citing growth opportunity in emerging procedure categories, the burgeoning international opportunity, and new product cycles.

• Kellogg Co: Piper Sandler cuts target price to $66 from $76, expecting the company’s revenue and earnings growth trajectory to lag peers over the next 1-2years.

• PAR Technology Corp: BTIG raises target price to $80 from $68, anticipating the company’s Brink software business to post annual growth of ~40% in the next three years.​


ECONOMIC EVENTS (All timings in U.S. Eastern Time)
0815 ADP national employment for Dec: Expected 88,000; Prior 307,000
0945 Markit Composite Final PMI for Dec: Prior 55.7
0945 Markit Services PMI Final for Dec: Prior 55.3
1000 Durables ex-defense, R mm for Nov: Prior 0.7%
1000 Durable goods, R mm for Nov: Prior 0.9%
1000 Factory orders mm for Nov: Expected 0.7%; Prior 1.0%
1000 Durables ex-transport R mm for Nov: Prior 0.4%
1000 Nondefense cap ex-air R mm for Nov: Prior 0.4%
1000 Factory ex-transport mm for Nov: Prior 1.0%
1200 Overall Comprehensive Risk for Q1: Prior 8.34


COMPANIES REPORTING RESULTS
No major S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report.


CORPORATE EVENTS (All timings in U.S. Eastern Time)
0830 MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc Q1 earnings conference call
0830 Simply Good Foods Co Q1 earnings conference call
0900 UniFirst Corp Q1 earnings conference call
1000 RPM International Inc Q2 earnings conference call
1100 Acuity Brands Inc Annual Shareholders Meeting
1100 Greenbrier Companies Inc Q1 earnings conference call
1600 Zscaler Inc Annual Shareholders Meeting
1700 Greenbrier Companies Inc Annual Shareholders Meeting


EX-DIVIDENDS
ABM Industries Inc: Amount $0.19
HEICO Corp: Amount $0.08
Kadant Inc: Amount $0.24
Oracle Corp: Amount $0.24
Simpson Manufacturing Co Inc: Amount $0.23
Trinseo SA: Amount $0.08

Goedemorgen
De markt is behoorlijk volatiel momenteel en dat komt natuurlijk door de verkiezingen in Georgia die nogal spannend is op dit moment. Het is een nipte race tussen de Democraten en de Republikeinen zodat men nog niet weet wie er gaat winnen. Gisteren leek het er nog op dat de republikeinen de meerderheid zouden houden, vanmorgen is het met bijna alle stemmen geteld zo dat men op 50-50 zit. Voor de politiek is dat wel een probleem want zo kan Biden net wel of net niet alle macht krijgen als President.

Gisteren lag de markt er opnieuw volatiel bij, alles wist nog positief af te sluiten maar de futures staan vanmorgen weer in de min en dan vooral de Nasdaq future die het moeilijk krijgt met meer dan 100 punten lager. We gaan in de loop van de dag wel zien welke kant het zal opgaan. Gisteren heb ik de posities in ieder geval gesloten op de laagste stand van de dag, het waren short posities die maandag rond de top werden opgenomen. Ook heb ik maandag al een long positie met wat winst afgesloten zodat we het jaar in ieder geval zijn opgestart. Er komen nieuwe posities aan maar ik wil dat niet te snel gaan doen, eerst even kijken wat de markt van plan is vandaag, er is tijd genoeg en de markten blijven nog in beide richtingen bewegen.

U kunt mij en dus @USMarkets uiteraard ook volgen via onze Twitter account, ga naar ... https://twitter.com/USMarkets waar ik tussentijds wat charts over de markt en sentiment plaats, ook opvallende beursfeiten komen er vaak langs !

We zien wel dat er opnieuw verschil zit tussen de technologie en de traditionele aandelen, gisteren was dat ook al zo. De olie aandelen lagen er sterk bij deze keer maar ook de banken deden het redelijk. Kijk ik naar de AEX dan zie ik Shell ruim 7% hoger, maar ook Just Eat Takeaway en ABN Amro zitten ook aan de winnende kant. Wat banken doen het goed door dat de rente wat oploopt in de VS. Philips, DSM en Adyen verliezen. Op Wall Street zijn de winnaars opnieuw Tesla maar ook Boeing dat maandag nog fors verloor en Dow Inc. samen met Chevron. Dat zet de Dow Jones 167 punten hoger, de Nasdaq won 120 punten gisteren. De AEX die het in tegenstelling tot de DAX ook goed deed won 2,6 punten, de DAX verloor gisteren 75 punten. Een markt die er toch verdeeld bijligt, dat maakt het dan ook zo moeilijk momenteel om ergens wat langer in te blijven. We kennen natuurlijk ook de situatie van de markt, gevaarlijk hoog met waarderingen die de pan uit rijzen.

Dan zijn er nog de nieuwe lockdowns in Europa maar ook in de VS moeten ze weer wat doen. Er is een vaccin, er zijn er meerdere, maar hoe lang zal het wel niet duren voor iedereen er eentje krijgt? En dat terwijl men het maar niet onder controle krijgt allemaal, Nederland zal langer dicht blijven dan de vooropgestelde datum 19 januari, in Duitsland is die periode al verlengd naar het einde van deze maand, het VK gaat dicht tot diep in februari, New York is er ook mee bezig om een lockdown in te voeren. Kortom de economische malaise kan nog een tijd aanhouden en het is de vraag hoe de consument zich zal gedragen eens het allemaal wel weer mag? We gaan het zien, we kunnen er toch niet veel aan veranderen en we moeten de tijd maar uitzitten.

Lagere futures dus vanmorgen bij de technologie, de Dow en de DAX staan wel wat in de plus. Het lijkt er dus op dat men de winst wil nemen bij de dure tech aandelen en naar kansen zoekt bij de meer traditionele aandelen die met een lagere waardering zitten zoals Shell hier bij de AEX. Wel kan de sessie zoals ik al aangaf volatiel worden, ik herhaal dat ik het rustig zal beoordelen en mogelijk op een top of bodem (steun-weerstand) wat zal doen.

Euro, olie en goud:
De euro zien we nu rond de 1.2315 dollar, de prijs van een vat Brent olie komt uit op 54 dollar terwijl een troy ounce goud nu op 1948 dollar staat.

Strategische posities:
Rond de bodem werden de short posities gisteren al gesloten, er loopt nu even niets maar er komen snel weer nieuwe mogelijkheden. Zodra u lid wordt ontvangt u de signalen en kunt u alles inzien via onze Tradershop op de website. We gaan in ieder geval met de markt mee, wat ik verwacht is dat de markt volatiel zal blijven, ook dit jaar zullen we moeten schakelen tussen long en short.

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GLOBAL TOP NEWS
Democrats and Republicans were locked in tight U.S. Senate racesin Georgia on Tuesday as final votes were counted in a showdown that will decide whether President-elect Joe Biden enjoys control of Congress or faces stiff Republican opposition to his reform plans.​

Britain began its third COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday with the government calling for one last major national effort to defeat the spread of a virus that has infected an estimated one in 50 citizens before mass vaccinations turn the tide.

Saudi Arabia pledged additional, voluntary oil output cuts of one million barrels per day in February and March as part of a deal under which most OPEC+ producers will hold production steady in the face of new coronavirus lockdowns.


EUROPEAN COMPANY NEWS
People should get two doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine within 21-28 days, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as many countries struggled to administer the jabs that can ward off the COVID-19 virus.

Italian fashion group Prada said on Tuesday that it would close 2020 with an operating profit after a strong recovery from a first half coronavirus-driven sales slump.

Volkswagen's luxury British automaker Bentley posted record sales of 11,206 cars in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing the company's factory to close during the first lockdown in England, as demand in China soared by nearly 50%.​


TODAY'S COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Hemogenyx Pharmaceuticals PLC Shareholders Meeting
ReNeuron Group PLC HY 2021 Earnings Call


ECONOMIC EVENTS (All times GMT)
0700 (approx.) United Kingdom Reserve Assets Total for Dec: Prior $183,005.14 mln
0745 France Consumer Confidence for Dec: Expected 91; Prior 90
0745 France CPI (EU Norm) Preliminary yy for Dec: Expected 0.2%; Prior 0.2%
0745 (approx.) France CPI (EU Norm) Preliminary mm for Dec: Expected 0.5%; Prior 0.2%
0745 (approx.) France CPI Preliminary yy NSA for Dec: Expected 0.2%; Prior 0.2%
0745 (approx.) France CPI Preliminary mm NSA for Dec: Expected 0.4%; Prior 0.2%
0800 Germany Saxony State CPI mm for Dec: Prior -0.7%
0800 Germany Saxony State CPI yy for Dec: Prior 0.1%
0815 Spain Services PMI for Dec: Expected 45.0; Prior 39.5
0845 Italy Markit/IHS Services PMI for Dec: Expected 45.3; Prior 39.4
0845 Italy Composite PMI for Dec: Prior 42.7
0850 France Markit Services PMI for Dec: Expected 49.2; Prior 49.2
0850 France Markit Composite PMI for Dec: Expected 49.6; Prior 49.6
0855 Germany Markit Services PMI for Dec: Expected 47.5; Prior 47.7
0855 Germany Markit Composite Final PMI for Dec: Expected 52.5; Prior 52.5
0900 (approx.) Germany Brandenburg State CPI mm for Dec: Prior -0.9%
0900 (approx.) Germany Brandenburg State CPI yy for Dec: Prior -0.2%
0900 Germany Bavaria State CPI mm for Dec: Prior -0.8%
0900 Germany Bavaria State CPI yy for Dec: Prior -0.2%
0900 (approx.) Germany Hesse State CPI mm for Dec: Prior -0.8%
0900 (approx.) Germany Hesse State CPI yy for Dec: Prior -0.6%
0900 Euro Zone Markit Services Final PMI for Dec: Expected 47.3; Prior 47.3
0900 Euro Zone Markit Composite Final PMI for Dec: Expected 49.8; Prior 49.8
0930 United Kingdom Markit/CIPS Services Final PMI for Dec: Expected 49.9; Prior 49.9
0930 United Kingdom Composite Final PMI for Dec: Expected 50.7; Prior 50.7
1000 Euro Zone Producer Prices mm for Nov: Expected 0.1%; Prior 0.4%
1000 Euro Zone Producer Prices yy for Nov: Expected -2.2%; Prior -2.0%
1300 (approx.) Germany CPI Preliminary mm for Dec: Expected 0.6%; Prior -0.8%
1300 (approx.) Germany CPI Preliminary yy for Dec: Expected -0.3%; Prior -0.3%
1300 (approx.) Germany HICP Preliminary mm for Dec: Expected 0.7%; Prior -1.0%
1300 (approx.) Germany HICP Preliminary yy for Dec: Expected -0.6%; Prior -0.7%
1300 (approx.) Germany North Rhine-Westphalia State CPI mmfor Dec: Prior -0.8%
1300 (approx.) Germany North Rhine-Westphalia State CPI yy for Dec: Prior -0.4%