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Ideas for next week: the confidence of businesses and consumers in the U.S., Germany Zew index, meetings of central banks in Switzerland and New Zealand

• U.S.: The Fed's Beige Book released last week confirmed that the U.S. economy is slowing and that a new round of quantitative easing by the Fed is a distinct possibility, although not in the short term . During next week's data on industrial production for August and indexes of the confidence of businesses and consumers should reduce concerns about a double dip of the U.S., confirming that the most likely scenario in the coming months is a growth rate moderate. Inflation is likely to continue to be moderate

• Euro Area: The index of confidence of analysts and institutional investors Zew to fall for the fifth consecutive month in August, anticipating a fall even IFO index of business confidence in the coming months. The CPI in the Euro-August should confirm that inflationary pressures are limited;

• United Kingdom : the Bank of England decided to keep the official discount rate at 0 , 5% and to maintain the stock of asset purchases to GBP200bn. During the next week, the ICC should go below the threshold of 3% for the first time dal gennaio scorso;

• Svizzera : Nel corso della riunione di politica monetaria della settimana prossima, la BNS è attesa lasciare la fascia obiettivo per il Libor a 3 mesi invariata a 0,0-0,75%. Il punto di maggiore interesse sarà la visione della BNS sull’andamento del Franco Svizzero;

• Canada : La Banca del Canada ha deciso di alzare i tassi dallo 0,75% al 1% al termine della riunione di politica monetaria della settimana scorsa;

• Nuova Zelanda : the RBNZ expected to raise 25bp to 3.25%.

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