Global News and Data Calendar

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

Date    GMT /Local          Event

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24-May      -           EU  ECB President Mario Draghi and Executive Board

                              member Benoit Coeure participation in Eurogroup

                              meeting, in Brussels.

24-May  0600/0800  *    DE  GFK Consumer Climate

24-May  0600/0800  ***  DE  GDP (f)

24-May  0645/0845  *    FR  Business Climate Indicator

24-May  0645/0845  **   FR  Manufacturing Sentiment

24-May  0645/0845  *    FR  Services Sentiment

24-May  0700/0900  *    ES  industrial orders

24-May  0700/0900  *    ES  services survey

24-May  0815/0415       US  New York Federal Reserve Bank President William

                              Dudley to speak on "Reference Rate Reform;

                              Improving the Culture of FICC Markets" at the

                              Markets Forum 2018 in London, with audience Q&A.

                            https://www.youtube.com/user/bankofenglanduk

24-May  0830/0930  ***  UK  Retail Sales

24-May  0830/1030       EU  ECB Executive Board member Peter Praet speech at

                              2018 IIF Spring Meeting organised by the Institute

                              of International Finance, in Brussels.

24-May  0900/1000       UK  Parliament rises for Whitsun Recess

24-May  1030/1230       EU  ECB Executive Board member Peter Praet speech at

                              at the European Business Summit, in Brussels.

24-May  1200/2200       AU  RBA Assistant Governor Michele Bullock speaks at

                              De Nederlandsche Bank Housing Market seminar in

                              Amsterdam

24-May  1230/0830  **   US  Jobless Claims

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

24-May  1300/0900  **   US  FHFA Quarterly Price Index

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

24-May  1345/0945  *    US  Bloomberg Comfort Index

24-May  1400/1000  ***  US  NAR existing home sales

24-May  1430/1030  **   US  Natural Gas Stocks

24-May  1435/1035       US  Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael

                              Bostic to give opening remarks at the

                              "Technology-Enabled Disruption: Implications for

                              Business, Labor Markets and Monetary Policy

                              Conference" in Dallas.

24-May  1500/1100  **   US  Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Index

24-May  1800/1400       US  Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President

                              Patrick Harker to speak at Technology-Enabled

                              Disruption: Implications for Business, Labor

                              Markets and Monetary Policy in Dallas, with

                              audience Q&A.

24-May  2030/1630  **   US  Fed Weekly Money Supply Data

25-May  2330/0830  **   JP  Tokyo CPI

25-May  0600/0800  *    DE  construction orders

25-May  0700/0900  **   ES  PPI

25-May  0800/1000  ***  DE  IFO Business Climate Index

25-May  0800/1000  ***  DE  IFO Business Climate Index Direction

25-May  0830/0930  ***  UK  GDP Second Estimate

25-May  0830/0930  **   UK  Index of Services

25-May  0830/0930  **   UK  BBA mortgage lending

25-May  1230/0830  **   US  durable goods new orders

25-May  1315/1515       EU  ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure

                              participation in a high-level panel at Sveriges

                              Riksbank's 350th anniversary celebration, in

                              Stockholm.

25-May  1315/1515       EU  ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure

                              participation in a high-level panel at Sveriges

                              Riksbank's 350th anniversary celebration, in

                              Stockholm.

25-May  1320/0920       US  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to speak on

                              Financial Stability and Central Bank Transparency

                              at the "Sveriges Riksbank Conference: 350 Years of

                              Central Banking - The Past, The Present and The

                              Future" in Stockholm, with audience Q&A.

                            http://www.riksdagen.se/sv/webb-tv/video/oppet-sem

                              inarium/sveriges-riksbank-350-ar-jubileumskonferen

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25-May  1400/1000  ***  US  Final Michigan Sentiment Index

25-May  1500/1100  **   US  St. Louis Fed Real GDP Nowcast

25-May  1515/1115  **   US  NY Fed GDP Nowcast

25-May  1545/1145       US  Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles

                              Evans, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President

                              Raphael Bostic, and Dallas Federal Reserve Bank

                              President Rob Kaplan to participate in a panel

                              discussion at the Technology-Enabled Disruption:

                              Implications for Business, Labor Markets and

                              Monetary Policy in Dallas, with audience Q&A.

25-May  1920/2120       EU  ECB Gov. Council member Jens Weidmann speech at

                              the 350th Anniversary of the Sveriges Riksbank, in

                              Stockholm.

29-May  2330/0930  **   AU  ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence

29-May  0440/0040       US  St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James

                              Bullard to discuss the U.S. economy and monetary

                              policy at the Japan Center for International

                              Finance's Global Finance Seminar, in Minato-ku,

                              Tokyo, with audience and media Q&A.

29-May  0645/0845  **   FR  Consumer Sentiment

29-May  0800/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Consumer Confidence

29-May  0800/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Business Confidence

29-May  0800/1000  **   EU  M3

29-May  1300/0900  **   US  S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index

29-May  1400/1000  ***  US  Conference Board Consumer Confidence

29-May  1430/1030  **   US  Dallas Fed manufacturing survey

29-May  1530/1730       EU  ECB Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger

                              speech at CFS Colloquium "Monetary policy - End of

                              (hi) story?" organised by the Center for Financial

                              Studies, in Frankfurt.

30-May  2100/0900  ***  NZ  RBNZ Financial Stability Report

30-May  2301/0001  *    UK  BRC Monthly Shop Price Index

30-May  2350/0850  *    JP  Retail sales (p)

30-May  0600/0800  **   DE  Import/Export Prices

30-May  0600/0800  **   DE  ILO employment

30-May  0600/0800  **   DE  Retail Sales

30-May  0645/0845  **   FR  Consumer Spending

30-May  0645/0845  ***  FR  GDP (2nd est.)

30-May  0700/0900  *    ES  retail sales

30-May  0700/0900  *    CH  KOF Economic Barometer

30-May  0700/0900  ***  ES  HICP (p)

30-May  0755/0955  **   DE  unemployment

30-May  0900/1100  **   EU  Economic Sentiment Indicator

30-May  0900/1100  *    EU  Business Climate Indicator

30-May  0900/1100  *    EU  Consumer Confidence, Industrial Sentiment

30-May  1100/0700  **   US  MBA weekly applications index

30-May  1100/1200       UK  Weekly questions to the Prime Minister

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

30-May  1215/0815  ***  US  ADP Employment Report

30-May  1230/0830  ***  US  GDP (2nd)

30-May  1230/0830  **   US  advance trade, advance business inventories

30-May  1230/0830  *    CA  Current account

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

30-May  1255/0855  **   US  Redbook Retail Sales Index

30-May  1400/1000  ***  CA  Interest Rate Announcement Bank of Canada

30-May  1400/1000  *    US  help-wanted online index

30-May  1430/1030  **   US  Dallas Fed Services Survey

30-May  1800/1400       US  Federal Reserve releases the Beige Book for

                              upcoming FOMC meeting in Washington.

30-May  1900/1500  *    US  farm prices

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