Global News and Data Calendar

--Rating: *** most market sensitive, * least market sensitive

Date    GMT /Local          Event

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12-Mar  1400/1000  *    US  employment trends index

12-Mar  1400/1000  *    US  BLS State Employment

12-Mar  1500/1100  **   US  NY Fed survey of consumer expectations

12-Mar  1600/1700       DE  BBK Board member Joachim Wuermeling speech at 

                              Forum Bundesbank, in Hamburg, Germany.

12-Mar  1800/1400  **   US  Treasury Budget

13-Mar      -           EU  ECB Executive Board member Vitor Constancio

                              participation in the ECOFIN meeting, in Brussels,

                              Belgium.

13-Mar  2230/0930  **   AU  ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence

13-Mar  2340/1040       AU  RBA Asst Gov Michele Bullock speaks at Seamless

                              Australia Payments Conference, Sydney. Also Q&A

13-Mar  2350/0850  *    JP  CGPI

13-Mar  0030/1130  ***  AU  Housing finance

13-Mar  0030/1130  **   AU  NAB business survey

13-Mar  0630/0730  **   FR  non-farm payrolls

13-Mar  0800/0900  ***  ES  HICP (f)

13-Mar  1000/0600  **   US  NFIB Small Business Optimism Index

13-Mar  1230/0830  ***  US  CPI

13-Mar  1230/1230       UK  UK Budget, Spring Statement, Westminster

13-Mar  1255/0855  **   US  Redbook Retail Sales Index

13-Mar  1415/1015       CA  BOC Gov Stephen Poloz speech on Today's Labour

                              Market and the Future of Work at Queen's

                              University Kingston, ON.

14-Mar      -      *    FR  BOF retail trade

14-Mar  2205/0905       AU  RBA Asst Gov Christopher Kent speaks at KangaNews

                              DCM Summit, Sydney. Also Q&A

14-Mar  2330/1030       AU  Westpac-MI Consumer Sentiment

14-Mar  2350/0850  *    JP  Machinery orders

14-Mar  2350/0850       JP  BOJ releases minutes of Jan. 22-23 policy meeting

14-Mar  0200/1000  ***  CN  Fixed-Asset Investment

14-Mar  0200/1000  ***  CN  Industrial Output

14-Mar  0200/1000  ***  CN  Retail Sales

14-Mar  0700/0800  ***  DE  HICP (f)

14-Mar  0730/0830       EU  ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure

                              participation in a meeting with Fintech companies

                              organised by FinLeap, in Berlin.

14-Mar  0800/0900  *    ES  retail sales

14-Mar  0800/0900       EU  ECB President Mario Draghi speech at Conference

                              "The ECB and Its Watchers XIX" organised by the

                              Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, in

                              Frankfurt.

14-Mar  0845/0945       EU  ECB Executive Board member Peter Praet

                              participation in Debate 1 "Assessment of

                              Quantitative Easing and Challenges of Policy

                              Normalization" at Conference "The ECB and Its

                              Watchers XIX" , in Frankfurt.

14-Mar  0845/0945       EU  ECB Supervisory Board member Ignazio Angeloni

                              speech at annual conference organised by Itinerari

                              Previdenziali, in Rome.

14-Mar  0900/1000  *    IT  retail sales

14-Mar  1000/1100  *    EU  employment

14-Mar  1000/1100  **   EU  industrial production

14-Mar  1045/1145       EU  ECB Executive Board member Vitor Constancio

                              participation in Debate 2 "The Pursuit of

                              Financial Stability and Tasks for Monetary,

                              Regulatory and Macro-Prudential Policies" at

                              Conference "The ECB and Its Watchers XIX" ,in

                              Frankfurt.

14-Mar  1100/0700  **   US  MBA weekly applications index

14-Mar  1200/1200       UK  Weekly questions to the Prime Minister

14-Mar  1230/0830  *    CA  Intl Investment Position

14-Mar  1230/0830  ***  US  PPI

14-Mar  1230/0830  ***  US  Retail Sales

14-Mar  1400/1000  *    US  business inventories

14-Mar  1400/1000  **   US  Atlanta Fed inflation index

14-Mar  1420/1520       DE  BBK Board member Joachim Wuermeling speech at the

                              Economic Council of the CDU, Financial Market

                              Meeting 2018, in Berlin.

14-Mar  1430/1030  **   US  DOE weekly crude oil stocks

14-Mar  1615/1715       EU  ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure

                              participation in panel on 'Zero interest rate

                              policy' at CDU-Economic Council:

                              Finanzmarktklausur, in Berlin.

15-Mar  0000/1100  **   AU  Melbourne Institute inflation expectations survey

15-Mar  0700/0800  *    EU  ACEA car registrations

15-Mar  0745/0845  ***  FR  HICP (f)

15-Mar  0830/0930  ***  CH  SNB policy decision

15-Mar  0830/0930  ***  CH  SNB policy decision

15-Mar  0830/0930  ***  CH  SNB policy decision

15-Mar  0830/0930  ***  CH  SNB policy decision

15-Mar  0830/0930  ***  CH  SNB policy decision

15-Mar  0830/0930  ***  CH  SNB policy decision

15-Mar  0830/0930       DE  BBK Board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele speech at

                              FOCUS EUROPE: "DigiFin" - Instant Payments and the

                              digitalization of the German financial system, in

                              Frankfurt.

15-Mar  0900/1000       NO  Norges Bank Policy Decision

15-Mar  1230/0830  *    CA  Household debt-to-income

15-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  Jobless Claims

15-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  import/export price index

15-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  Empire State Manufacturing Survey

15-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index

15-Mar  1300/0900  *    CA  Home Sales - CREA (Canadian real estate

                              association)

15-Mar  1345/0945  *    US  Bloomberg Comfort Index

15-Mar  1400/1000  **   US  NAHB Home Builder Index

15-Mar  1430/1030  **   US  Natural Gas Stocks

15-Mar  1545/1645       EU  ECB Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger

                              speech at Florence School of Banking and Finance,

                              in Florence, Italy.

15-Mar  1600/1700       EU  ECB Gov. Council member Ewald Nowotny speech on

                              current issues of monetary policy, in Innsbruck,

                              Austria.

15-Mar  2000/1600  **   US  TICS

15-Mar  2030/1630  **   US  Fed Weekly Money Supply Data

16-Mar  2245/0945       AU  RBA Deputy Governor Guy Debelle speaks at

                              Financial Risk Day, Sydney. Also Q&A.

16-Mar  0700/0800  *    DE  wholesale prices

16-Mar  0800/0900  *    ES  labour costs

16-Mar  0900/1000  ***  IT  HICP (f)

16-Mar  1000/1100  *    EU  labour costs

16-Mar  1000/1100  ***  EU  HICP (f)

16-Mar  1230/0830  ***  CA  Monthly Survey of Manufacturing

16-Mar  1230/0830  *    CA  International Canadian Transaction in Securities

16-Mar  1230/0830  ***  US  housing starts

16-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  NY Fed Business Leaders Survey

16-Mar  1315/0915  ***  US  Industrial Production

16-Mar  1400/1000  ***  US  University of Michigan Sentiment Index (p)

16-Mar  1400/1000  **   US  JOLTS jobs opening level

16-Mar  1400/1000  **   US  JOLTS quits Rate

16-Mar  1500/1100  **   US  St. Louis Fed Real GDP Nowcast

16-Mar  1515/1115  **   US  NY Fed GDP Nowcast

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