Next Week’s Menu: February 7-14, 2026
February 6, 2026
Central Banks: Interest rate settings will be reviewed in Russia, Peru, Serbia, Egypt and the Philippines. Hammack, Bostic and Logan of the Federal Reserve and Hunter and Hauser of the Reserve Bank of Australia will be speaking publicly.
Japanese Holiday and Event: National Foundation Day falls on Tuesday, and lower house parliamentary elections are set for Sunday.
Scheduled U.S. Data Releases: Quarterly employment cost index. Monthly Labor Dept. employment situation report (note the rare Wednesday release). Also monthly consumer prices, retail sales, import prices, existing home sales, small business sentiment, and consumer inflation expectations. Weekly jobless insurance claims, energy inventories, chain store sales and mortgage applications.
Japanese and Chinese Releases: Japanese and Chinese international reserves, money growth, bank lending and producer prices. Japanese current account, machine tool orders, average cash earnings and economy watchers index. Chinese property prices.
Other Asia: Indian wholesale prices and CPI. Malaysian GDP, current account and industrial production. Indonesian consumer sentiment and retail sales. South Korean import prices, unemployment and indices of leading and coincident economic indicators.
Euroland Releases: Quarterly employment and GDP. Monthly trade balance and Sentix gauge of investor sentiment.
Members of Euro Area: German, Spanish and Latvian current accounts. Spanish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Dutch, Slovenian and Estonian consumer prices. Italian, Slovenian, Irish, Finnish, and Austrian industrial production. Slovenian and Slovakian GDP. German wholesales prices, Irish construction purchasing managers survey, and French indices of leading and coincident economic indicators. Dutch trade balance.
U.K. and Switzerland: British December and 4Q GDP. Monthly industrial production, construction output, trade balance, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors house price balance survey, and indices of leading and coincident economic indicators. Swiss CPI and unemployment.
Eastern Europe: Bulgarian, Russian, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech and Polish consumer prices. Bulgarian and Romanian industrial production and GDP. Russian and Polish current accounts.
Nordic Europe: Norwegian GDP and PPI. Danish consumer prices and current account.
Australia, Turkey and South Africa: Australian business confidence, business conditions and building permits. Turkish industrial production, retail sales and current account. South African business confidence and factory output.
Canada, Brazil and Mexico: Canadian building permits. Mexican CPI and industrial production. Brazilian CPI, PPI, retail sales and leading and coincident economic indicators.
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