UK economic indicators: The British Retail Consortium releases retail sales data for March. In February, BRC reported total retail sales rose at an annual rate of 1.1 per cent, down from 1.2 per cent in January, and the slowest rate since August 2022. UK lender Barclays will also publish March consumer spending. Business lobby group CBI publishes its quarterly Financial Services Survey.
Ireland: The country’s parliament returns from recess and Simon Harris is due to be voted in as taoiseach, heading Ireland’s three-party coalition after Leo Varadkar’s shock resignation last month.
Central banks: Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey presents the UK’s new bank notes featuring King Charles III’s portrait. Martin Flodén, deputy governor of Sweden’s Riksbank, speaks at a DNB Bank event about the country’s economy and monetary policy.
EU events: Swedish foreign minister Tobias Billstrom hosts a two-day meeting with his Nordic and Baltic counterparts on the island of Gotland. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Zuzana Čaputová, presidents of Germany and Slovakia, review troops in Berlin.
