Global News and Data Calendar

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Date    GMT /Local          Event

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22-Feb  0700/0800  ***  DE  GDP (f)

22-Feb  0900/1000  ***  DE  IFO Business Climate Index

22-Feb  0900/1000  ***  DE  IFO Business Climate Index Direction

22-Feb  0900/1000       EU  ECB Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny gives

                              press conference in Brussels.

22-Feb  1000/1100  ***  EU  HICP (f)

22-Feb  1100/1100  **   UK  CBI Distributive Trades

22-Feb  1330/0830  ***  CA  Retail Trade

22-Feb  1400/1500  **   BE  BNB Business Sentiment

22-Feb  1515/1015       US  San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary

                              Daly to give remarks at the US Monetary Policy

                              Forum in New York, New York, followed by audience

                              Q&A.

22-Feb  1530/1630       EU  ECB President Mario Draghi speech on the occasion

                              of the awarding of Laurea honoris causa to him by

                              Universita degli studi di Bologna in Bologna,

                              Italy.

22-Feb  1600/1100       US  The Federal Reserve will release the semiannual

                              policy report to Congress at 11:00 am ET ahead of

                              Chairman Powell's testimony on February 26.

22-Feb  1600/1100  **   US  St. Louis Fed Real GDP Nowcast

22-Feb  1615/1115  **   US  NY Fed GDP Nowcast

22-Feb  1700/1200       US  Federal Reserve Board of Governors Vice Chairman

                              Richard Clarida to deliver a speech on "The

                              Federal Reserve's Review of Monetary Policy

                              Strategies, Tools, and Communications" at the 2019

                              U.S. Monetary Policy Forum in New York, NY.

22-Feb  1830/1330       US  US Federal Reserve Bank Vice Chairman Richard

                              Clarida, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President

                              James Bullard, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank

                              President Patrick Harker, and Vice Chairman Randal

                              Quarles to participate in a panel on "The Future

                              of the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet" at the

                              InterContinental New York Barclay in New York New

                              York, followed by audience Q&A.

22-Feb  1830/1330       US  Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Patrick

                              Harker to moderate a panel on "The Future of the

                              Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet" at the Chicago

                              Booth U.S. Monetary Policy Forum in New York, New

                              York, followed by audience Q&A.

25-Feb  0700/0800  *    DE  construction orders

25-Feb  0800/0900  **   ES  PPI

25-Feb  1400/0900       US  Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida and

                              Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Rob Kaplan

                              to go on a bus tour of southern Dallas to learn

                              more about economic challenges in the city and

                              what is being done 

to address them, in Dallas,

                              TX.

25-Feb  1500/1000  **   US  wholesale trade

25-Feb  1500/1000       US  Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida and

                              Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Rob Kaplan

                              to participate in a community listening session at

                              St. Philips Academy, where they will hear input

                              from community leaders, in Dallas, TX.

25-Feb  1530/1030  **   US  Dallas Fed manufacturing survey

26-Feb  0700/0800  *    DE  GFK Consumer Climate

26-Feb  0745/0845  **   FR  Consumer Sentiment

26-Feb  0930/0930  **   UK  BBA mortgage lending

26-Feb  1330/0830  ***  US  housing starts

26-Feb  1330/0830  **   US  Philadelphia Fed Nonmanufacturing Index

26-Feb  1330/0830  *    CA  Quarterly financial statistics for enterprises

26-Feb  1355/0855  **   US  Redbook Retail Sales Index

26-Feb  1400/0900  **   US  FHFA Home Price Index

26-Feb  1400/0900  **   US  FHFA Quarterly Price Index

26-Feb  1400/0900  **   US  S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index

26-Feb  1430/1530       EU  ECB Executive Board member Yves Mersch speech at

                              the 'FinTech and Digital Innovation: Regulation at

                              the European Level and Beyond' conference in

                              Brussels.

26-Feb  1500/1000  **   US  Richmond Fed Survey

26-Feb  1500/1000  ***  US  Conference Board Consumer Confidence

26-Feb  1500/1000       US  US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell to

                              deliver the semiannual monetary report to

                              Congress.

26-Feb  1530/1030  **   US  Dallas Fed Services Survey

27-Feb  0001/0001  *    UK  BRC Monthly Shop Price Index

27-Feb  0530/1430       JP  BOJ Kataoka holds news conference

27-Feb  0700/1500  **   CN  MNI China Liquidity Suvey

27-Feb  0830/0930       EU  ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure speaks at

                              conference on CCP Risk Management in Frankfurt.

27-Feb  0900/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Business Confidence

27-Feb  0900/1000  **   EU  M3

27-Feb  0900/1000  **   IT  ISTAT Consumer Confidence

27-Feb  1000/1100  *    EU  Consumer Confidence, Industrial Sentiment

27-Feb  1000/1100  *    EU  Business Climate Indicator

27-Feb  1000/1100  **   EU  Economic Sentiment Indicator

27-Feb  1200/0700  **   US  MBA weekly applications index

27-Feb  1200/1200       UK  Weekly questions to the Prime Minister

27-Feb  1330/0830  ***  CA  CPI

27-Feb  1330/0830  *    CA  Payroll employment

27-Feb  1330/0830  **   US  advance trade, advance business inventories

27-Feb  1500/1000       US  The House Financial Services Committee will

                              convene the semiannual Humphrey-Hawkins hearing

                              entitled, "Monetary Policy and the State of the

                              Economy," with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome

                              Powell.

27-Feb  1500/1000  **   US  factory new orders

27-Feb  1500/1000  **   US  NAR pending home sales

27-Feb  1530/1030  **   US  DOE weekly crude oil stocks

28-Feb  2350/0850  **   JP  Industrial production

28-Feb  2350/0850  *    JP  Retail sales (p)

28-Feb  0001/0001  **   UK  Gfk Monthly Consumer Confidence

28-Feb  0100/0900  ***  CN  CFLP Manufacturing PMI

28-Feb  0100/0900  **   CN  CFLP Non-Manufacturing PMI

28-Feb  0500/1400       JP  BOJ Suzuki holds a news conference

28-Feb  0645/0745  ***  CH  GDP

28-Feb  0745/0845  **   FR  Consumer Spending

28-Feb  0745/0845  ***  FR  GDP (2nd est.)

28-Feb  0745/0845  **   FR  PPI

28-Feb  0745/0845  ***  FR  HICP (p)

28-Feb  0800/0900  *    CH  KOF Economic Barometer

28-Feb  0800/0900  ***  ES  HICP (p)

28-Feb  1000/1100  ***  IT  HICP (p)

28-Feb  1300/0800       US  US Federal Reserve Bank Vice Chairman Richard

                              Clarida to provide opening remarks at the 35th

                              Annual NABE Economic Policy Conference in

                              Washington, DC.

28-Feb  1300/1400  ***  DE  HICP (p)

28-Feb  1330/0830  *    CA  Current account

28-Feb  1330/0830  *    CA  Industrial Product and Raw Material Price Index

28-Feb  1330/0830  **   US  Jobless Claims

28-Feb  1330/0830  ***  US  GDP (2nd)

28-Feb  1350/0850       US  Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael

                              Bostic to participate in a panel about "Economic

                              and Housing Landscape" at the 2019 Banking Outlook

                              Conference in Atlanta, GA, with audience Q&A.

28-Feb  1400/0900  *    US  Milwaukee Manufacturing ISM index

28-Feb  1445/0945  **   US  MNI Chicago PMI

28-Feb  1500/1000  **   US  housing vacancies

28-Feb  1530/1030  **   US  Natural Gas Stocks

28-Feb  1600/1100  **   US  Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Index

28-Feb  1715/1215       US  Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President

                              Patrick Harker to deliver a speech about economic

                              outlook at the Philadelphia Inquirer's Influencers

                              of Finance event in Philadelphia, PA.

28-Feb  1800/1300       US  Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Rob Kaplan

                              to participate in a moderated Q&A at the Real

                              Estate Council of San Antonio in San Antonio, TX.

28-Feb  2000/1500  *    US  farm prices

28-Feb  2130/1630  **   US  Fed Weekly Money Supply Data

01-Mar  2330/0830  **   JP  Tokyo CPI

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