Global News and Data Calendar

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Date    GMT /Local          Event

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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  *    US  Services Revenues

06-Dec  1500/1000  **   CA  Ivey PMI

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

06-Dec  1735/1235       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  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.

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.

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

07-Dec  2000/1500  *    US  Treasury STRIPS

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

10-Dec  1830/1330       CA  BOC Deputy Gov Timothy Lane participates in a

                              panel discussion at the

Toronto Centre and Central

                              Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey.

11-Dec      -      ***  CN  Money Supply

11-Dec      -      ***  CN  New Loans

11-Dec      -      ***  CN  Social Financing

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

11-Dec  0930/0930  ***  UK  Labour Market Survey

11-Dec  1000/1100  ***  DE  ZEW Current Conditions Index

11-Dec  1000/1100  ***  DE  ZEW Current Expectations Index

11-Dec  1100/0600  **   US  NFIB Small Business Optimism Index

11-Dec  1330/0830  ***  US  PPI

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

11-Dec  1600/1100  **   US  Kansas City Fed LMCI

12-Dec      -      ***  CN  Money Supply

12-Dec      -      ***  CN  New Loans

12-Dec      -      ***  CN  Social Financing

12-Dec  2350/0850  *    JP  CGPI

12-Dec  2350/0850  *    JP  Machinery orders

12-Dec  1000/1100  ***  IT  HICP (f)

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

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

12-Dec  1330/0830  ***  US  CPI

12-Dec  1330/0830  **   CA  Capacity Utilization

12-Dec  1330/1430       EU  ECB Supervisory Board member Pentti Hakkarainen

                              speech at the

inaugural meeting of the

                              International Quality Network,organised by the

                              ECB, in Frankfurt.

12-Dec  1500/1000  **   US  Atlanta Fed inflation index

12-Dec  1530/1030  **   US  DOE weekly crude oil stocks

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