Global News and Data Calendar

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Date    GMT /Local          Event

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16-Aug  0100/1100  **   AU  Melbourne Institute inflation expectations survey

16-Aug  0130/1130  ***  AU  Labor force survey

16-Aug  0600/0800  *    DE  wholesale prices

16-Aug  0800/1000       NO  Norges Bank policy decision

16-Aug  0830/0930  ***  UK  Retail Sales

16-Aug  0900/1100  *    EU  trade balance

16-Aug  1230/0830  **   US  Jobless Claims

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

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

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

16-Aug  1230/0830  **   US  Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index

16-Aug  1345/0945  *    US  Bloomberg Comfort Index

16-Aug  1430/1030  **   US  Natural Gas Stocks

16-Aug  2030/1630  **   US  Fed Weekly Money Supply Data

17-Aug  2330/0930       AU  Appearance by RBA Governor Philip Lowe before the

                              House of Representatives' Standing Committee on

                              Economics in Canberra

17-Aug  0730/1730       AU  RBA Asst Governor Luci Ellis speaks at The

                              Australian National University (ANU) event in

                              Canberra

17-Aug  0800/1000  **   EU  current account

17-Aug  0900/1100  ***  EU  HICP (f)

17-Aug  1230/0830  *    CA  International Canadian Transaction in Securities

17-Aug  1230/0830  ***  CA  CPI

17-Aug  1400/1000  ***  US  University of Michigan Sentiment Index (p)

17-Aug  1400/1000  *    US  E-Commerce retail sales

17-Aug  1400/1000  *    US  Advance Quarterly Services Survey

17-Aug  1400/1000  **   US  leading indicators

17-Aug  1400/1000  *    US  BLS State Employment

17-Aug  1500/1100  **   US  St. Louis Fed Real GDP Nowcast

17-Aug  1515/1115  **   US  NY Fed GDP Nowcast

20-Aug  0600/0800  **   DE  PPI

20-Aug  0900/1100  **   EU  construction production

20-Aug  1215/0815       CA  BOC Senior Deputy Gov Carolyn Wilkins participates

                              in a panel discussion at the Central Bank Research

                              Association, Frankfurt, Germany

20-Aug  1500/1100       US  Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael

                              Bostic to participate in a fireside chat at the

                              Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol Chamber of

                              Commerce in Kingsport, Tennessee, with audience

                              Q&A.

21-Aug  2130/0730       AU  RBA Governor Philip Lowe to speak at breakfast

                              event to launch ASIC's National Financial

                              Capability Strategy 2018 in Canberra

21-Aug  2245/1045  *    NZ  Net monthly migration

21-Aug  2330/0930  **   AU  ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence

21-Aug  0130/1130  ***  AU  RBA board meeting minutes

21-Aug  0830/0930  ***  UK  Public Sector Finances

21-Aug  1230/0830  **   US  Philadelphia Fed Nonmanufacturing Index

21-Aug  1230/0830  **   CA  Wholesale Trade

21-Aug  1255/0855  **   US  Redbook Retail Sales Index

22-Aug      -           AU  RBA Deputy Governor Guy Debelle speaks at Economic

                              Society of Australia (QLD) Business Luncheon in

                              Brisbane

22-Aug  2245/1045  **   NZ  Quarterly retail trade

22-Aug  0030/1030  *    AU  Westpac-MI leading index

22-Aug  0130/1130  ***  AU  Quarterly construction work done

22-Aug  1100/0700  **   US  MBA weekly applications index

22-Aug  1230/0830  ***  CA  Retail Trade

22-Aug  1400/1000  ***  US  NAR existing home sales

22-Aug  1400/1000  *    US  QCEW

22-Aug  1430/1030  **   US  DOE weekly crude oil stocks

22-Aug  1800/1400       US  The Federal Reserve releases the minutes from the

                              July 31st - August 1st FOMC meeting in Washington

22-Aug  1900/1500  *    US  Treasury Allotments (preliminary)

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