US President Donald Trump has named John Kelly, a retired general and current homeland security secretary, as his new chief of staff, replacing Reince Priebus in a sudden shake-up following a tumultuous week at the White House.

Investors are unlikely to catch a summer break next week when the Bank of England delivers its latest monetary policy decision, Apple reports results and markets get the latest update on the health of the US labour market.

Here’s what to watch in the coming days.

A jam-packed week for corporate earnings has split the fortunes of major US equities indices, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average capping a string of record closes to end with a weekly gain, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended in negative territory.

AstraZeneca was stripped of its A-minus rating from S&P Global on Friday, days after the pharmaceutical group suffered a setback with a lung cancer drug it had hoped would replace chemotherapy as a first-line treatment.

The EU’s top court has imposed a provisional injunction on Poland requiring Warsaw to temporarily halt its logging activities in the ancient Bialowieza forest.

Mexico’s export surged during the first six months of 2017, setting a new record high of $198bn for the first half of the year, as the start of NAFTA renegotiations looms in mid-August.

The US has confirmed that it detected the launch of a ballistic missile from North Korea, the latest provocation from Pyongyang that comes a day after the US Senate approved a new package of sanctions targeting the country.

Wells Fargo shares declined on Friday after the US lender said that “inadequate” controls led to customers being billed for auto insurance they did not want, with some potentially facing repossession of their vehicle.

One man has been left dead and four injured, police said, after a knife-wielding attacker assaulted people in a supermarket in the north German city of Hamburg.

Brent crude climbed on Friday to its highest level in two months with both oil benchmarks poised for their biggest weekly advance for the year.

Chinese consumer conglomerate Fosun plans to buy a French margarine maker for €625m, marking its second international deal in a single week shortly after it was implicated in Beijing’s probe of acquisitive private firms.

US environmental regulators have decided to allow Fiat Chrysler to resume selling some 2017 diesel models after making adjustments to emissions software, while the company continues its battle to to persuade regulators that this fix can also be applied to earlier year models that are at the centre of a court battle.

Shares of tobacco companies tumbled on Friday as US regulators announced that they intend to “begin a public dialogue” about lowering nicotine levels in cigarettes to non-addictive levels, in an effort to stamp out tobacco-related diseases and deaths.

US economic growth accelerated in the second quarter, but a report Friday also showed wage growth cooled.

Wall Street said the data were unlikely to draw out a huge reaction from the Federal Reserve, which has signalled one more rate rise this year and is expected to begin tightening its balance sheet. Here’s what they took away from the employment cost index and GDP report.

US consumer sentiment remained strong in July, but is significantly below the ebullient levels struck in January after the election of Donald Trump, a survey showed.

US stocks started on the back foot on Friday, with recent earnings disappointments from the likes of Amazon, Exxon Mobil and Starbucks helping to dampen momentum at the end of a busy week.

Canada’s economy grew for a seventh straight month in May – its best run since 2014 – underscoring the central bank’s decision to raise rates earlier this month and helping the Canadian dollar to surge against its US counterpart.

Chevron bounced back to profit in the second quarter, aided by higher oil prices, but the earnings missed Wall Street expectations.

The US dollar fell against the Japanese yen and the euro after a report on Friday showed that the rate of US growth accelerated less than expected in the second quarter.

The rate of US growth picked up steam in the second quarter, but wage growth undershot estimates, underscoring the economy’s patchy performance of late.

ExxonMobil almost doubled its profits in the second quarter but the earnings came in slightly below analysts’ expectations, prompting shares to slide more than 2 per cent in pre-market trading.

The wheels are coming off Goodyear Tire & Rubber shares on Friday after the US tyre maker was forced to cut its profit outlook for the year following another quarter of weak sales.

American Airlines shares rose in pre-market trading after the US carrier released better than expected second quarter earnings, reporting higher revenues in line with market expectations but also flagging higher costs.

Steady as she goes.

After a brief period where inflation watching became fun* in the eurozone, consumer price growth has held broadly steady across three of the bloc’s four biggest economies in July.