Global News and Data Calendar

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Date    GMT /Local          Event

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04-Dec      -      *    DE  car registrations

04-Dec  0001/0001  *    UK  BRC-KPMG Shop Sales Monitor

04-Dec  0030/1130       AU  Balance of Payments: Current Account

04-Dec  0700/0800  *    DE  wholesale sales

04-Dec  0800/0900  *    ES  unemployment

04-Dec  0815/0915  ***  CH  CPI

04-Dec  0900/1000  *    DE  VDMA machine orders

04-Dec  0930/0930  **   UK  Markit/CIPS Construction PMI

04-Dec  1000/1100  **   EU  PPI

04-Dec  1330/0830  *    CA  Labour Productivity and Costs

04-Dec  1355/0855  **   US  Redbook Retail Sales Index

04-Dec  1445/0945  *    US  ISM-NY Manufacturing Index

04-Dec  1500/1000  **   US  IBD/TIPP Optimism Index

05-Dec  0030/1130       AU  GDP

05-Dec  0130/1030       JP  BOJ Deputy Governor Wakatabe speaks to business

                              leaders

05-Dec  0145/0945  **   CN  Caixin Service PMI

05-Dec  0800/0900  **   ES  industrial production

05-Dec  0815/0915  **   ES  Markit Services PMI (f)

05-Dec  0830/0930       EU  ECB President speech at ECB colloquium "Promoting

                              safe and sound banks in the SSM" in honour of

                              Daniele Nouy, in Frankfurt.

05-Dec  0845/0945  **   IT  Markit Services PMI (f)

05-Dec  0845/0945       EU  ECB Supervisory Board member Daniele Nouy speech

                              at ECB

colloquium in her honour "Promoting safe

                              and sound banks in the SSM", in Frankfurt.

05-Dec  0850/0950  **   FR  Markit Services PMI (f)

05-Dec  0855/0955  **   DE  Markit Services PMI (f)

05-Dec  0900/1000  **   EU  Markit Services PMI (f)

05-Dec  0930/0930  **   UK  Markit/CIPS Services PMI

05-Dec  1000/1100  **   EU  retail sales

05-Dec  1015/1115       EU  ECB Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger

                              chairing panel discussion "SSM: taking a snapshot

                              of the future" at ECB

colloquium in honour of

                              Daniele Nouy, in Frankfurt.

05-Dec  1200/0700  **   US  MBA weekly applications index

05-Dec  1200/1200       UK  Weekly questions to the Prime Minister

05-Dec  1500/1000  *    US  Services Revenues

05-Dec  1500/1000  *    US  help-wanted online index

05-Dec  1500/1000  ***  CA  Interest Rate Announcement Bank of Canada

05-Dec  1900/1400       US  Federal Reserve releases the Beige Book for

                              upcoming FOMC meeting in Washington.

05-Dec  0115/2015       US  US Federal Reserve Bank Vice Chairman Randal

                              Quarles to deliver a speech on banking conditions

                              in the West at Stanford University in Stanford,

                              California.

06-Dec  0030/1130       AU  Retail Trade

06-Dec  0700/0800  **   DE  manufacturing orders

06-Dec  0730/0830       EU  ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos speech Opening

                              at the 14th

Joint ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop

                              "Labour markets in the digital era" ,in Frankfurt.

06-Dec  1230/0730  *    US  Challenger Monthly Layoff Intentions

06-Dec  1315/0815  ***  US  ADP Employment Report

06-Dec  1330/0830  **   US  Jobless Claims

06-Dec  1330/0830  **   US  Non-Farm Productivity (f)

06-Dec  1330/0830  **   US  trade balance

06-Dec  1330/0830  **   CA  International Merchandise Trade (Trade Balance)

06-Dec  1335/0835       CA  BOC Gov Stephen Poloz speech at the CFA Society

                              Toronto, Toronto, ON.

06-Dec  1445/0945  ***  US  Markit Services Index (final)

06-Dec  1445/0945  *    US  Bloomberg Comfort Index

06-Dec  1500/1000  ***  US  ISM Non-Manufacturing Index

06-Dec  1500/1000  **   US  factory new orders

06-Dec  1500/1000  **   CA  Ivey PMI

06-Dec  1600/1100  **   US  DOE weekly crude oil stocks

06-Dec  1715/1215       US  Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael

                              Bostic to deliver a speech on the US economic

                              outlook at the Georgia Economic Outlook in

                              Atlanta, Georgia.

06-Dec  2000/1500  *    US  Treasury STRIPS

06-Dec  2130/1630  **   US  Fed Weekly Money Supply Data

06-Dec  2330/1830       US  New York Federal Reserve Bank President John

                              Williams to participate in moderated discussion

                              with Mervyn King at the LSE Foundation in New

                              York, New York.

06-Dec  2345/1845       US  US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell to

                              deliver brief welcoming remarks at the Housing

                              Assistance Council's Rural Housing Conference in

                              Washington, DC.

07-Dec      -      ***  CN  FX Reserves

07-Dec  2330/0830  **   JP  Household spending

07-Dec  0000/0900  **   JP  average wages (p)

07-Dec  0700/0800  **   DE  industrial production

07-Dec  0700/0800  *    DE  labour costs

07-Dec  0745/0845  *    FR  current account

07-Dec  0745/0845  *    FR  foreign trade

07-Dec  0745/0845  *    FR  industrial production

07-Dec  0900/1000  *    IT  retail sales

07-Dec  1000/1100  ***  EU  GDP (2nd est.)

07-Dec  1000/1100  *    EU  employment

07-Dec  1330/0830  ***  US  Employment Report

07-Dec  1330/0830  ***  CA  Labour Force Survey

07-Dec  1500/1000  ***  US  University of Michigan Sentiment Index (p)

07-Dec  1500/1000  **   US  wholesale trade

07-Dec  1530/1030  **   US  Natural Gas Stocks

07-Dec  1600/1700       EU  BBK Board member Sabine Mauderer speech at the

                              Monetary Workshop, in Berlin.

07-Dec  1600/1100  **   US  St. Louis Fed Real GDP Nowcast

07-Dec  1615/1115  **   US  NY Fed GDP Nowcast

07-Dec  1715/1215       US  Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lael

                              Brainard to speak about current financial

                              stability issues at a luncheon at the Peterson

                              Institute for International Economics in

                              Washington D.C., followed by audience Q&A.

07-Dec  2000/1500  *    US  Consumer Credit

08-Dec      -      ***  CN  Trade

09-Dec  0130/0930  ***  CN  Producer Price Index

09-Dec  0130/0930  ***  CN  CPI

10-Dec      -      ***  CN  Money Supply

10-Dec      -      ***  CN  New Loans

10-Dec      -      ***  CN  Social Financing

10-Dec  2350/0850  **   JP  GDP (r)

10-Dec  0645/0745  **   CH  unemployment

10-Dec  0700/0800  **   DE  trade balance

10-Dec  0730/0830  **   FR  BoF Business survey

10-Dec  0930/0930  **   UK  Index of Services

10-Dec  0930/0930  **   UK  Output in the Construction Industry

10-Dec  0930/1030       EU  ECB Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger

                              participation  in Panel 1 at 6th Frankfurt

                              Conference on Financial Market Policy organised by

                              the SAFE Research Center at the Goethe University

                              , in Frankfurt.

10-Dec  1000/1100  **   EU  industrial production

10-Dec  1215/1315       EU  ECB Supervisory Board member Ignazio Angeloni

                              participation in a discussion at roundtable

                              "Balancing the Roles of the ECB" organised by

                              Official Monetary and Financial Institutions

                              Forum

(OMFIF), in London.

10-Dec  1315/0815  **   CA  Housing Starts - CMHC (Canadian Mortgage and

                              Housing Corp)

10-Dec  1330/0830  *    CA  Building Permits

10-Dec  1500/1000  *    US  employment trends index

10-Dec  1500/1000  **   US  JOLTS jobs opening level

10-Dec  1500/1000  **   US  JOLTS quits Rate

10-Dec  1600/1100  **   US  NY Fed survey of consumer expectations

11-Dec  2230/0930  **   AU  ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence

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