* 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.