Data from the UK, Australia and China today.

And, China is back from holidays – Chinese markets have been closed on Thursday, Friday (last week) and Monday. They reopen today

The focus of the data agenda is the second of China’s Services PMIs for April. Its expected to have subsided just a little.

• This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
• The times in the left-most column are GMT.
• The numbers in the right-most column are the ‘prior’ (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.