Next Week
May 11, 2018
Central Banks: Monetary policy meetings scheduled in Thailand, Mexico, Indonesia, Iceland, Poland, and Brazil. Publication of RBA minutes. Mester and Kashkari of the Federal Reserve to speak publicly as will DeBelle of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Jordan of the Swiss National Bak and Schembri of the Bank of Canada.
Holidays and Events: Norway’s Constitution Day on Thursday. Iraqi parliamentary election on the 12th, and a meeting of EU finance ministers on the 16th.
Scheduled U.S. Economic Statistical Releases: Retail sales, industrial production, capacity usage, Empire State and Philly Fed manufacturing indices, NAHB housing index, housing starts, building permits, index of leading economic indicators, Treasury-compiled capital flows, and the usual weekly measures of jobless insurance claims, mortgage applications, energy inventories, chain store sales and consumer comfort.
Chinese and Japanese Data: Chinese retail sales, industrial production, fixed asset investment, unemployment, new home sales, and foreign direct investment. Japanese GDP, machinery orders, consumer prices, machine tool orders, tertiary index, revised industrial production, capacity usage, department store sales, and corporate goods prices.
Selected Other Asia Data: Indian, Indonesian, and Singaporean trade balances. South Korean and Hong Kong unemployment. Indian wholesale prices and index of leading economic indicators. Malaysian current account.
Euroland: GDP, consumer prices, current account, trade balance, construction output, car sales, and industrial production. ZEW gauge of investor sentiment.
Members of the Euro Area: German GDP, CPI, PPI, wholesale prices, ZEW investor sentiment index, and index of leading economic indicators. French, Italian, Finnish, Cypriot and Austrian consumer prices. Italian, Dutch, Belgian, and Irish trade figures. Italian and Finnish current accounts. Portuguese PPI and Greek import prices. Portuguese and Cypriot GDP. French business sentiment, Irish construction purchasing managers index, and Italian industrial orders. Dutch retail sales and unemployment.
U.K. and Switzerland: British unemployment, employment, wages, and index of leading economic indicators. Swiss producer prices and import prices.
Eastern Europe: Polish, Hungarian and Czech GDP. Romanian and Polish current accounts. Czech PPI, Polish consumer prices, and Hungarian industrial output.
Nordic Europe: Danish PPI and Iceland’s CPI. Norwegian GDP and trade balance.
Australia and New Zealand: Australian jobs growth, unemployment, consumer confidence, index of leading economic indicators, and quarterly labor cost index. New Zealand producer prices and service sector purchasing managers index.
South Africa and Turkey: South African and Turkish retail sales and unemployment. South African unemployment and wholesale turnover. Turkish industrial production and current account.
Canada: Retail sales, consumer prices, existing home sales, and manufacturing orders, sales and inventories.
Mexico and Brazil: Mexican and Brazilian indices of leading economic indicators.
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