The agency expects the US April core PCE price index month-on-month figure to be released at 20:30 tonight.

Dutch Bank: +0.1%; Capital Economics: +0.1%; Moody's Analytics: +0.1%; Fuguo Bank: +0.1%; Citigroup: +0.1%; Deutsche Bank: +0.1%; Goldman Sachs: +0.1%; Deutsche Bank: +0.1%; HSBC Holdings: +0.1%; ING International: +0.1%; JPMorgan Chase: +0.1%; Barclays Bank: +0.1%; Nomura Securities: +0.1%; UBS Group: +0.1%; Industrial Bank: +0.1%; Sumitomo Mitsui Bank: +0.1%; Natixis Bank: +0.1%; TD Securities: +0.1%; Montreal Bank: +0.1%; Mizuho Bank: +0.2%; Standard Chartered Bank: +0.2%; Morgan Stanley: +0.2%; Bank of Canada: +0.3%. [Reuters Survey: +0.1%]