A last piece of news from the eurozone before we close the blog for today.

Consumer confidence in the currency bloc improved more than expected this month, according to the European Commission. Its measure of confidence rose to a two-year high of -15.6 points from -17.4 in July. That beat expectations of a smaller improvement to -16.5 points.

That is all from the live blog today. Thank you for reading. We will be back next week with more news from around financial markets and the global economy.