* Eurozone PPI comes in a little below expectations up 1.1% in July and up 9.0% year on year.

* Oil dips below $106 before recovering to $106 as impact from Hurricane Gustav seen to be less than feared.

* OECD predicts that the UK economy will slip into recession in the H2 of 2008.

* UK Construction PMI beats forecasts by rebounding to 40.5 in August from the 36.7 level seen in July

* Spanish unemployment rises by 103,000 in August.