Key Events This Week: Retail Sales And China GDP Amid Fed Speaker Deluge

While the reverberations from this weekend's western strike on Syria will dominate newsflow, if only at the start of the week, while concerns that the US trade war with China may return at any moment remain, there is still some notable data to highlight including China Q1 GDP and US retail sales. The Fedspeak diary is also packed full all week while President Trump is due to meet Japan's Abe, the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings kick off, and Germany's Merkel and France's Macron meet to discuss EU reform and trade.

In addition to all that, US earnings season kicks up a notch with 61 S&P 500 companies due to report.