MNI European Morning Briefing

     LONDON (MNI) - First up on the economic docket on Friday is German

Construction Orders data at 0700GMT.

     At 0800GMT Spanish PPI will be published.

     The German IFO Survey will be released at 0900GMT.

     Italian Industrial Orders are also on the schedule for 0900GMT.

     At 1030GMT ECB Supervisory Board chair Daniele Nouy will give the keynote

speech at 18th Handelsblatt annual meeting on European Banking Regulation, in

Frankfurt.

     At 1230GMT ECB Vice-President Vitor Constancio gives a speech on the

occasion of the awarding of the German Bernacer Prize, in Madrid.

     Across the Atlantic US markets return to the fray after the Thanksgiving

market holiday, however it is a truncated session with an early close for

markets in the US.

     Canadian Quarterly Financial Statistics for Enterprises will be released at

1330GMT.

     At 1445GMT the flash US Markit Manufacturing and Services PMI figures are

published.

     Also at 1445 is the US Bloomberg Comfort Index.

     The St. Louis Fed release their Real GDP Nowcast at 1600GMT, swiftly

followed by the New York Fed GDP Nowcast.

     Rounding off the day at 1815GMT is a speech from CB Executive Board member

Benoit Coeure who gives opening remarks at conference "Economic and Financial

Regulation in the Era of Big Data", in Paris.

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