Global News and Data Calendar

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Date    GMT /Local          Event

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27-Mar  0045/1145       AU  RBA Asst Gov Christopher Kent, speaks at

                              Investment Implementation Summit, Sydney. Also Q&A

27-Mar  0600/0800  **   DE  Import/Export Prices

27-Mar  0700/0900  ***  ES  HICP (p)

27-Mar  0800/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Consumer Confidence

27-Mar  0800/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Business Confidence

27-Mar  0800/1000  **   EU  M3

27-Mar  0830/0930       UK  BOE FPC Minutes from Mar 12 Meeting

27-Mar  0900/1100  **   EU  Economic Sentiment Indicator

27-Mar  0900/1100  *    EU  Business Climate Indicator

27-Mar  0900/1100  *    EU  Consumer Confidence, Industrial Sentiment

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

27-Mar  1300/0900  **   US  S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index

27-Mar  1400/1000  **   US  Richmond Fed Survey

27-Mar  1400/1000  ***  US  Conference Board Consumer Confidence

27-Mar  1430/1030  **   US  Dallas Fed Services Survey

27-Mar  1500/1100       US  Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael

                              Bostic to participate in a "Conversation with John

                              Hope Bryant" at the "HOP Flobal Forums, 2018

                              Annual Meeting" in Atlanta.

28-Mar  0000/1300  ***  NZ  ANZ monthly business survey

28-Mar  0600/0800  *    DE  GFK Consumer Climate

28-Mar  0645/0845  **   FR  Consumer Sentiment

28-Mar  0700/0900  *    ES  retail sales

28-Mar  0800/1000  *    IT  industrial orders

28-Mar  0830/0930       UK  BOE Agents' Business Survey

28-Mar  1000/1100  **   UK  CBI Distributive Trades

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

28-Mar  1100/1200       UK  Weekly questions to the Prime Minister

28-Mar  1230/0830  *    CA  Payroll employment

28-Mar  1230/0830  ***  US  GDP (3rd)

28-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  advance trade, advance business inventories

28-Mar  1400/1000  **   US  NAR pending home sales

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

28-Mar  1530/1130       US  Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael

                              Bostic to participate in an "Armchair Chat" with

                              the "Atlanta Society of Finance and Investment

                              Professionals" in Atlanta, with audience Q&A.

28-Mar  1900/1500  *    US  farm prices

28-Mar  2130/2330       DE  BBK Board member Joachim Wuermeling speech at

                              Forum Money Marketeers New York, in New York.

29-Mar  2145/1045  *    NZ  Monthly building consents

29-Mar  2301/0001  **   UK  Gfk Monthly Consumer Confidence

29-Mar  2350/0850  *    JP  Retail sales (p)

29-Mar  0030/1130  *    AU  Job vacancies

29-Mar  0030/1130  **   AU  RBA private sector credit m/m

29-Mar  0600/0800  **   DE  ILO employment

29-Mar  0700/0900  *    CH  KOF Economic Barometer

29-Mar  0755/0955  **   DE  unemployment

29-Mar  0830/0930  **   UK  Index of Services

29-Mar  0830/0930  **   UK  GDP Third Estimate

29-Mar  0830/0930  *    UK  Quarterly current account balance

29-Mar  0830/0930  **   UK  BOE M4

29-Mar  0830/0930  **   UK  BOE Lending to Individuals

29-Mar  1200/1400  ***  DE  HICP (p)

29-Mar  1230/0830  *    CA  Industrial Product and Raw Material Price Index

29-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  Jobless Claims

29-Mar  1230/0830  **   US  Personal Income and Consumption

29-Mar  1230/0830  ***  CA  Gross Domestic Product by Industry

29-Mar  1300/0900  *    US  Milwaukee Manufacturing ISM index

29-Mar  1345/0945  **   US  MNI Chicago PMI

29-Mar  1345/0945  *    US  Bloomberg Comfort Index

29-Mar  1400/1000  ***  US  Final Michigan Sentiment Index

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

29-Mar  1600/1200  **   US  USDA GrainStock - NASS

29-Mar  1700/1300       US  Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President

                              Patrick Harker to discuss the economic outlook at

                              the "New York Association of Business Economics

                              Luncheon" in New York City, with audience and

                              media Q&A.

29-Mar  1900/1500       US  San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank Executive Vice

                              President and Research Director Mary Daly to speak

                              on the outlook on the national and local economy

                              at the Arizona Country Club in Phoenix, Arizona,

                              with audience Q&A.

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

30-Mar      -           UK  UK Markets closed for Good Friday

30-Mar  2330/0830  **   JP  Tokyo CPI

30-Mar  2350/0850  **   JP  Industrial production

30-Mar  0645/0845  **   FR  PPI

30-Mar  0645/0845  **   FR  Consumer Spending

30-Mar  0645/0845  ***  FR  HICP (p)

30-Mar  0800/1000  ***  IT  HICP (p)

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

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

31-Mar  0100/0900  ***  CN  CFLP Manufacturing PMI

31-Mar  1200/2000  **   CN  CFLP Non-Manufacturing PMI

02-Apr      -           UK  Markets closed for Easter holiday

02-Apr  2350/0850  ***  JP  Tankan

02-Apr  0145/0945  ***  CN  Caixin Manufacturing PMI

02-Apr  1345/0945  ***  US  Markit Manufacturing Index (final)

02-Apr  1400/1000  ***  US  ISM Manufacturing Index

02-Apr  1400/1000  *    US  construction spending

02-Apr  2200/1800       US  Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel

                              Kashkari to speak at a Student Town Hall in

                              Duluth, Minnesota with audience Q&A.

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