Good Morning

There are no early European events on Monday, as the calendar gets going at 1000GMT, when the Swiss National Bank releases it's Quarterly Bulletin for March 2010. The Bundesbank then issues it's monthly report at 1100GMT.

At 1230GMT, ECB Governing Council member Axel Weber and Christian Noyer are due to participate in a debate on "The Euro in the Financial Crisis

- lessons and perspectives", in Copenhagen.

US data starts at 1330GMT with the weekly MNI Capital Goods Index, which is followed at 1430GMT by the weekly MNI Retail Trade Index.

Also at 1430GMT, Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker speaks at European Parliament.

At 1500GMT, EMU Mar consumer confidence is expected to improve slightly, to a reading of -17.0.

At 1530GMT, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet gives an introductory statement at the quarterly hearing before the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament, in Brussels.

At 1645GMT, ECB Executive Board member Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo is due to speak at the USA-European Union Forum: 'Looking towards the future', in New York.

In the US,, at 1945GMT, Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart delivers a speech on the economic outlook at the Naples Council on World Affairs.

He will repeat that speech at 2300GMT.

Finally, at 2045GMT, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner speaks at the American Enterprise Institute on the subject of financial regulatory reform.