MNI European Morning Briefing

     LONDON (MNI) - The economic docket kicks off on Friday with French Non-Farm

Payrolls data and Industrial Production figures at 0745GMT.

     Next up are Italian Industrial Production figures at 0900GMT.

     At 0930GMT a tranche of UK data are released. Industrial Production,

Manufacturing Production, Output in the Construction Industry and Trade Balance

data are all on the schedule.

     The pace of expansion in UK Industrial Production is expected to have risen

in September, and in the process see the sixth consecutive monthly rise.

     These data are unlikely to prove incendiary as the ONS already announced

estimates of these figures in the initial print for Q3 GDP in October. The ONS

predicted that Industrial Production rose 0.3% on the month, while Construction

Output is forecast to have fallen 1.0%.

     Bundesbank Board member Andreas Dombret will deliver speech at the 63rd

credit policy conference, in Frankfurt at 1000GMT.

     Today is the second day of Brexit talks between representatives of the UK

and the EU in Brussels. While no progress is expected to be made, both sides

have called this round of talks a "stock taking exercise", comments could

emanate from Brussels throughout the day.

     A quiet day for North American data, the first release of the day taking

place in the US timezone is a speech from ECB Executive Board member Yves Mersch

at 1230GMT. Mersch will deliver the speech at the 2017 Cumberland Lodge

Financial Services Summit organised by the European Policy Forum, in Windsor,

UK.

     Across the Atlantic the first data release is the University of Michigan

preliminary Sentiment Index at 1500GMT. The index is expected to hold steady at

100.7 in early November after surging to that point in October.

     Rounding off a quiet end to the week the St. Louis Fed Real GDP Nowcast is

on the docket at 1600GMT, followed swiftly by the New York Fed GDP Nowcast at

1615GMT.

--MNI London Bureau; +44 203 865 3809; email: kieran.williams@marketnews.com