Next Week’s Menu: May 9-15, 2026
May 8, 2026
Central Banks: Monetary policy reviews are scheduled in Romania and Peru. Hammack, Goolsbee and Williams have speaking engagements. So do Cipollone of the ECB and Mann of the Bank of England. A summary of the recent Bank of Japan board meeting will be published.
U.S. Data Releases: Producer prices, retail sales, import prices, small business sentiment, existing home sales, industrial production, capacity utilization, U. Michigan/Reuters index of consumer sentiment, Empire State manufacturing survey, Treasury-compiled capital flows, and the April fiscal budget balance. Weekly jobless insurance claims, energy inventories, chain store sales and mortgage applications.
Chinese and Japanese Releases: Chinese and Japanese producer prices and money growth. Japanese household spending, economy watchers index, machine tool orders, forex reserves, and index of leading economic indicators. Chinese CPI, trade balance, motor vehicle sales, and current account.
Other Asia: Indian CPI and unemployment. South Korean import prices and unemployment. Malaysian GDP and current account. Indonesia consumer confidence.
Euroland Releases: Industrial production, Sentix and ZEW gauges of investor sentiment, and revised first-quarter GDP and employment.
Members of the Euro Area: German, Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Portuguese, Dutch, Slovakian, Finnish, Cypriot, Lithuanian, Latvian and Irish consumer prices. German and French indices of leading economic indicators. Italian and Slovenian industrial production. German ZEW expectations index, Dutch trade balance, Lithuanian PPI and Irish construction purchasing managers survey. German and Latvian current accounts.
U.K. and Switzerland: British same-store sales, RICS house price balance, industrial production, construction output, trade balance and quarterly and March GDP. Swiss PPI, import prices and industrial production.
Nordic Europe: Norwegian, Danish and Swedish CPI. Norwegian PPI and GDP. Denmark’s trade balance.
Eastern Europe: Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian and Russian GDP. Czech retail sales, Russian trade balance, and Hungarian industrial production. Russian and Polish CPI.
Australian, South Africa and Turkey: Australian business confidence, business conditions, consumer confidence, wage price index, and index of leading economic indicators. South African manufacturing output. Turkish current account and retail sales.
Canada and Brazil: Canadian housing starts and factory sales. Brazilian business confidence, retail sales, CPI and index of leading economic indicators.
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