Global News and Data Calendar

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Date    GMT /Local          Event

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24-Apr  0130/1130  ***  AU  Consumer price index

24-Apr  0645/0845  *    FR  Services Sentiment

24-Apr  0645/0845  **   FR  Manufacturing Sentiment

24-Apr  0645/0845  *    FR  Business Climate Indicator

24-Apr  0800/1000  ***  DE  IFO Business Climate Index

24-Apr  0800/1000  ***  DE  IFO Business Climate Index Direction

24-Apr  0800/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Business Confidence

24-Apr  0800/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Consumer Confidence

24-Apr  0830/0930  ***  UK  Public Sector Finances

24-Apr  0900/1100  *    EU  government debt

24-Apr  0900/1100  *    EU  government deficit

24-Apr  1000/1100  **   UK  CBI Industrial Trends

24-Apr  1230/0830  **   US  Philadelphia Fed Nonmanufacturing Index

24-Apr  1255/0855  **   US  Redbook Retail Sales Index

24-Apr  1300/0900  **   US  FHFA Home Price Index

24-Apr  1300/0900  **   US  S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index

24-Apr  1300/1500  **   BE  BNB Business Sentiment

24-Apr  1400/1000  ***  US  new home sales

24-Apr  1400/1000  *    US  Building permits revisions

24-Apr  1400/1000  **   US  Richmond Fed Survey

24-Apr  1400/1000  ***  US  Conference Board Consumer Confidence

24-Apr  1530/1730       DE  BBK Board member Andreas Dombret speech at CfS

                              Special Lecture, in Frankfurt.

24-Apr  1600/1800       DE  BBK Board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele participation

                              in panel discussion at the 2.Hessian banking day,

                              in Frankfurt.

25-Apr  0600/0800  *    DE  construction orders

25-Apr  0645/0845  **   FR  Consumer Sentiment

25-Apr  0700/0900  **   ES  PPI

25-Apr  1100/0700  **   US  MBA weekly applications index

25-Apr  1100/1200       UK  Weekly questions to the Prime Minister

25-Apr  1430/1030  **   US  DOE weekly crude oil stocks

26-Apr      -           JP  BOJ holds two-day policy board meeting

26-Apr  2301/0001  *    UK  XpertHR pay deals for whole economy

26-Apr  0130/1130  **   AU  Trade price indexes

26-Apr  0600/0800  *    DE  GFK Consumer Climate

26-Apr  0730/0930       SE  RiksBank policy Decision

26-Apr  0830/0930  **   UK  BBA mortgage lending

26-Apr  1000/1100  **   UK  CBI Distributive Trades

26-Apr  1145/1345       EU  ECB monetary policy decision, in Frankfurt.

26-Apr  1230/0830  **   US  Jobless Claims

26-Apr  1230/0830  **   US  durable goods new orders

26-Apr  1230/0830  **   US  advance trade, advance business inventories

26-Apr  1230/0830  *    CA  Payroll employment

26-Apr  1230/1430       EU  Press conference following the Governing Council

                              meeting of the ECB in Frankfurt.

26-Apr  1345/0945  *    US  Bloomberg Comfort Index

26-Apr  1400/1000  **   US  housing vacancies

26-Apr  1430/1030  **   US  Natural Gas Stocks

26-Apr  1500/1100  **   US  Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Index

26-Apr  1520/1720       EU  ECB Supervisory Board chair Daniele Nouy at

                              Exchange of views "Addressing the obstacles to

                              further integration of EU banking markets" at

                              Eurofi Seminar 2018 "Improving financial stability

                              and integration", in Sofia.

26-Apr  2030/1630  **   US  Fed Weekly Money Supply Data

27-Apr      -           JP  BOJ holds two-day policy board meeting

27-Apr      -           EU  ECB Gov. Council member Jens Weidmann

                              participation in informal Ecofin, in Sofia.

27-Apr      -           EU  ECB President Mario Draghi, ECB Executive Board

                              member Benoit Coeure, ECB Supervisory Board chair

                              Daniele Nouy participation in Eurogroup meeting

                              and Informal ECOFIN, in Sofia.

27-Apr  2245/1045  **   NZ  Monthly trade balance

27-Apr  2301/0001  **   UK  Gfk Monthly Consumer Confidence

27-Apr  2350/0850  **   JP  Tokyo CPI

27-Apr  2350/0850  *    JP  Retail sales (p)

27-Apr  2350/0850  **   JP  Industrial production

27-Apr  0130/1130  *    AU  Producer price index q/q

27-Apr  0300/1200       JP  BOJ releases outcome of two-day policy board

                              meeting, monetary policy statement, quarterly

                              Outlook Report

27-Apr  0530/0730  ***  FR  GDP (p)

27-Apr  0545/0745       EU  ECB Executive Board member Yves Mersch  chairing

                              panel "Priorities for

further integrating EU

                              post-trading" at Eurofi Seminar 2018 "Improving

                              financial stability and integration", in Sofia.

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

27-Apr  0600/0800  **   DE  ILO employment

27-Apr  0630/0830       EU  ECB Gov. Council member Ewald Nowotny speech at

                              Austria 2018 Centenary Symposium, in Vienna.

27-Apr  0645/0845  **   FR  Consumer Spending

27-Apr  0645/0845  **   FR  PPI

27-Apr  0645/0845  ***  FR  HICP (p)

27-Apr  0645/0845       EU  ECB Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger 

                              chairing panel

"Success factors and expected

                              benefits of an agreement on EDIS and the backstop

                              to the SRF" at Eurofi Seminar 2018 "Improving

                              financial stability and integration", in Sofia.

27-Apr  0700/0900  ***  ES  GDP (p)

27-Apr  0700/0900  *    ES  retail sales

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

27-Apr  0755/0955  **   DE  unemployment

27-Apr  0800/1000       CH  SNB Gov. Thomas Jordan speech at the SNB's General

                              Meeting of Shareholders, Berne.

27-Apr  0800/1000       EU  ECB Executive Board member Yves Mersch speech at

                              Exchange of views "Forthcoming unwinding QE:

                              expected

impacts" at Eurofi Seminar 2018

                              "Improving financial stability and integration",

                              in Sofia.

27-Apr  0830/0930  ***  UK  GDP First Estimate

27-Apr  0830/0930  **   UK  Index of Services

27-Apr  0900/1100  *    EU  Business Climate Indicator

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

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

27-Apr  1230/0830  **   US  Employment Cost Index

27-Apr  1230/0830  ***  US  GDP (adv)

27-Apr  1400/1000  ***  US  Final Michigan Sentiment Index

27-Apr  1500/1100  **   US  St. Louis Fed Real GDP Nowcast

27-Apr  1515/1115  **   US  NY Fed GDP Nowcast

27-Apr  1900/1500  *    US  farm prices

28-Apr      -           EU  ECB Gov. Council member Jens Weidmann

                              participation in informal Ecofin, in Sofia.

28-Apr      -           EU  ECB President Mario Draghi, ECB Executive Board

                              member Benoit Coeure, ECB Supervisory Board chair

                              Daniele Nouy participation in Eurogroup meeting

                              and Informal ECOFIN, in Sofia.

30-Apr  0100/0900  ***  CN  CFLP Manufacturing PMI

30-Apr  0100/0900  **   CN  CFLP Non-Manufacturing PMI

30-Apr  0100/1300  ***  NZ  ANZ monthly business survey

30-Apr  0130/1130  **   AU  RBA private sector credit m/m

30-Apr  0600/0800  **   DE  Retail Sales

30-Apr  0700/0900  *    CH  KOF Economic Barometer

30-Apr  0800/1000  **   EU  M3

30-Apr  0900/1100  ***  IT  HICP (p)

30-Apr  1200/1400  ***  DE  HICP (p)

30-Apr  1230/0830  **   US  Personal Income and Consumption

30-Apr  1230/0830  *    CA  Industrial Product and Raw Material Price Index

30-Apr  1300/0900  *    US  Milwaukee Manufacturing ISM index

30-Apr  1345/0945  **   US  MNI Chicago PMI

30-Apr  1400/1000  **   US  NAR pending home sales

30-Apr  1430/1030  **   US  Dallas Fed manufacturing survey

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