Economic Calendar

  GMT Currency Event Volume Actual Forecast Previous
Thu May 17
  01:00 AUD AUD Consumer Inflation Expectation 3.1% 3.3%
  01:00 NZD NZD ANZ Consumer Confidence Index 113.9 114.0
  01:00 NZD NZD ANZ Consumer Confidence (MoM) -0.1% 3.4%
  01:30 AUD AUD RBA Foreign Exchange Transaction (Australian dollar) 944M
  01:30 AUD AUD Average Weekly Wages (QoQ) 1.0% 0.5%
  01:30 AUD AUD Average Weekly Wages (YoY) 4.1% 4.3%
  04:00 JPY JPY Tokyo Condominium Sales (YoY) -6.1%
  04:30 JPY JPY Industrial Production (MoM) 1.3% 1.0%
  04:30 JPY JPY Industrial Production (YoY) 14.2% 13.9%
  04:30 JPY JPY Capacity Utilization (MoM) 1.3% -1.7%
  06:00 JPY JPY Japan Machine Tool Orders [APR F] YoY 0.4% 0.5%
  07:00 EUR EUR Spain Gross Domestic Product (Constant s.a.) (YoY) (1Q F) -0.4% -0.4% -0.4%
  07:00 EUR EUR Spain Gross Domestic Product s.a. (QoQ) -0.3% -0.3% -0.3%
  08:30 EUR EUR Bonds-Spain to Sell 2015 and 2016 Bonds
  12:30 USD USD Continuing Claims 3265K 3225K 3247K
  12:30 CAD CAD Wholesale Sales (MoM) 0.4% 0.3% 1.5%
  12:30 USD USD Initial Jobless Claims 370K 365K 370K
  12:30 CAD CAD International Securities Transactions (Canadian dollar) -2.08B 8.00B 12.54B
  14:00 USD USD Philadelphia Fed. 10 8.5
  14:00 USD USD Leading Indicators 0.1% 0.3%
  14:30 CAD CAD Bank of Canada Publishes Review Collection of Academic Papers
  14:30 USD USD EIA Natural Gas Storage Change 30
  16:35 USD USD Fed's Bullard Speaks to Rotary Club of Louisville
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Fri May 18
  USD Revisions: Durable Goods Benchmarks
  01:30 CNY CNY China April Property Prices
  01:35 CNY CNY MNI May Flash Business Sentiment Survey
  05:30 JPY JPY Nationwide Department Store Sales (YoY) 14.1%
  05:30 JPY JPY Tokyo Department Store Sales (YoY) 26.7%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Producer Prices (YoY) 2.5% 3.3%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Producer Prices (MoM) 0.3% 0.6%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index 121.7
  12:30 CAD CAD Bank Canada Consumer Price Index Core (YoY) 1.9% 1.9%
  12:30 CAD CAD Bank Canada Consumer Price Index Core (MoM) 0.1% 0.3%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index (MoM) 0.3% 0.4%
  12:30 CAD CAD Core CPI s.a. (MoM) 0.2% 0.1%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index s.a. (MoM) 0.2% 0.2%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index (YoY) 1.9% 1.9%
  12:30 USD USD Revisions: Factory Orders
  14:00 USD USD American Petroleum Institute Monthly Report
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Sun May 13
  22:30 NZD NZD Performance Services Index 56.7 54.2
  22:45 NZD NZD Retail Sales Ex Inflation (QoQ) -1.5% -0.5% 1.8%
  23:50 JPY JPY Loans & Discounts Corp (YoY) -0.41% 0.15%
  23:50 JPY JPY Domestic Corporate Goods Price Index (MoM) 0.3% 0.1% 0.5%
  23:50 JPY JPY Domestic Corporate Goods Price Index (YoY) -0.2% -0.3% 0.5%
Mon May 14
  01:30 AUD AUD Value of Loans (MoM) -0.3% -4.1%
  01:30 AUD AUD Home Loans 0.3% -2.0% -2.5%
  01:30 AUD AUD Investment Lending -1.0% 4.3%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Wholesale Price Index (MoM) 0.5% 0.9%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Wholesale Price Index (YoY) 2.4% 2.2%
  06:45 EUR EUR France Current Account [MAR] (Euro) -4.1B -5.3B
  07:15 CHF CHF Producer & Import Prices (MoM) -0.1% 0.2% 0.3%
  07:15 CHF CHF Producer & Import Prices (YoY) -2.3% -2.1% -2.0%
  08:00 EUR Italian CPI - EU Harmonized [April YoY] 3.7% 3.8% 3.8%
  08:00 EUR Italian CPI (NIC incl. tobacco) [April MoM] 0.5% 0.5% 0.5%
  08:00 EUR Italian CPI - EU Harmonized [April MoM] 0.9% 0.9% 0.9%
  08:00 EUR Italian CPI (NIC incl. tobacco) [April YoY] 3.3% 3.3% 3.3%
  08:30 EUR EUR Spain to Sell 364-518 Day Bills
  08:30 EUR EUR Italian General Government Debt 1946.1B 1928.2B
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Industrial Production w.d.a. (YoY) -2.2% -1.40% -1.5%
  09:00 EUR EUR Italy to Sell 2015-2025 Bonds
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Industrial Production s.a. (MoM) -0.3% 0.40% 0.8%
Tue May 15
  01:30 AUD AUD Reserve Bank Board May Minutes
  01:30 AUD AUD New Motor Vehicle Sales (MoM) -0.7% 4.1%
  01:30 AUD AUD New Motor Vehicle Sales (YoY) 7.3% 4.0%
  01:48 CNY CNY Actual FDI (YoY) -0.7% 2.8% -6.1%
  03:00 NZD NZD Non Resident Bond Holdings 62.1% 60.9%
  05:00 JPY JPY Consumer Confidence 40.0 40.8 40.3
  05:30 EUR EUR French Consumer Price Index MoM (APR) 0.1% 0.2% 0.8%
  05:30 EUR EUR French Consumer Price Index YoY (APR) 2.1% 2.2% 2.3%
  05:30 EUR EUR French Gross Domestic Product (QoQ) 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
  05:30 EUR EUR French Gross Domestic Product (YoY) 0.3% 0.5% 1.2%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Gross Domestic Product s.a. (QoQ) 0.5% 0.1% -0.2%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Gross Domestic Product n.s.a. (YoY) 1.7% 0.9% 1.5%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Gross Domestic Product w.d.a. (YoY) 1.2% 0.8% 2.0%
  06:45 EUR EUR French Non-Farm Payrolls QoQ (1Q P) 0.1% -0.2% -0.1%
  06:45 EUR EUR French Wages QoQ (1Q P) 0.9% 0.7% 0.3%
  08:00 EUR EUR Italian Gross Domestic Product s.a. and w.d.a. (QoQ) -0.8% -0.7% -0.7%
  08:00 EUR EUR Italian Gross Domestic Product s.a. and w.d.a. (YoY) -1.3% -1.2% -0.4%
  08:30 GBP GBP Total Trade Balance (Pounds) --£2739 -£2900 -£2948
  08:30 GBP GBP Trade Balance Non EU (Pounds) --£4109 -£4700 -£4871
  08:30 GBP GBP Visible Trade Balance (Pounds) --£8564 -£8400 -£8590
  09:00 EUR EUR Greece Gross Domestic Product (YoY) (1Q A) -6.2% -7.5%
  09:00 EUR EUR Bonds Greece to Sell 91-Day Bills (€1 Bln)
  09:00 EUR EUR German ZEW Survey (Economic Sentiment) 10.8 19.0 23.4
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone ZEW Survey (Economic Sentiment) -2.4 13.1
  09:00 EUR EUR German ZEW Survey (Current Situation) 44.1 39.0 40.7
  09:00 EUR EUR Portugal Gross Domestic Product s.a. (QoQ) (1Q P) -0.1% -1.0% -1.3%
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Gross Domestic Product s.a. (YoY) 0.0% -0.2% 0.7%
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Gross Domestic Product s.a. (QoQ) 0.0% -0.2% -0.3%
  09:00 EUR EUR Portugal Gross Domestic Product n.s.a. (YoY) (1Q P) -2.2% -3.1% -2.9%
  09:00 EUR EUR Bonds_EFSF to Sell 2017 Notes (Up to €1 Bln)
  12:30 USD USD Advance Retail Sales 0.1% 0.1% 0.7%
  12:30 USD USD Retail Sales Less Autos 0.1% 0.2% 0.8%
  12:30 USD USD Retail Sales Ex Auto & Gas 0.1% 0.3% 0.8%
  12:30 USD USD Retail Sales "Control Group" 0.4% 0.3% 0.5%
  12:30 USD USD Consumer Price Index Core Index s.a. 228.984 228.432
  12:30 USD USD Consumer Price Index n.s.a. 230.085 229.904 229.392
  12:30 USD USD Consumer Price Index Ex Food & Energy (YoY) 2.3% 2.3% 2.3%
  12:30 USD USD Consumer Price Index (YoY) 2.3% 2.3% 2.7%
  12:30 USD USD Consumer Price Index Ex Food & Energy (MoM) 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
  12:30 USD USD Empire Manufacturing 17.09 9.00 6.56
  12:30 USD USD Consumer Price Index (MoM) 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
  13:00 USD USD Net Long-term TIC Flows $32.6B $32.5B $10.1B
  13:00 USD USD Total Net TIC Flows -$49.9B $92.6B
  14:00 USD USD Business Inventories 0.3% 0.4% 0.6%
  14:00 USD USD NAHB Housing Market Index 29 26 24
  23:50 JPY JPY Machine Orders (MoM) -2.8% -3.5% 2.8%
  23:50 JPY JPY Machine Orders (YoY) -1.1% 4.4% 8.9%
  23:50 JPY JPY Tertiary Industry Index (MoM) -0.6% -0.4% 0.0%
Wed May 16
  00:30 AUD AUD Westpac Consumer Confidence 0.8% -1.6%
  00:30 AUD AUD Westpac Consumer Confidence Index 95.3 94.5
  01:30 AUD AUD Wage Cost Index (QoQ) 0.9% 0.8% 1.0%
  01:30 AUD AUD Wage Cost Index (YoY) 3.6% 3.5% 3.6%
  06:00 EUR EUR EU 25 New Car Registrations -6.9% -7.0%
  08:00 EUR EUR Italy Trade Balance (Total) (Euro) [MAR] 2064M -1136M
  08:00 EUR EUR Italy Trade Balance Eu (EURO) [MAR] 1554M 416M
  08:30 GBP GBP Weekly Earnings exBonus (3M/YoY) 1.6% 1.4% 1.6%
  08:30 GBP GBP Claimant Count Rate 4.9% 5.0% 4.9%
  08:30 GBP GBP ILO Unemployment Rate (3M) 8.2% 8.4% 8.3%
  08:30 GBP GBP Average Weekly Earnings (3M/YoY) 0.6% 1.0% 1.1%
  08:30 GBP GBP Jobless Claims Change -13.7K 5.0K -5.4K
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Trade Balance (euros) 8.6B 4.0B 2.3B
  09:00 CHF CHF ZEW Survey (Expectations) -4.0 2.1
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Consumer Price Index - Core (YoY) 1.6% 1.5% 1.6%
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Trade Balance s.a. (euros) 4.3B 3.8B 4.0B
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Consumer Price Index (YoY) 2.6% 2.6%
  09:00 EUR EUR Euro-Zone Consumer Price Index (MoM) 0.5% 0.5% 1.3%
  09:30 GBP GBP Bank of England Inflation Report
  11:00 USD USD MBA Mortgage Applications 9.2% 1.70%
  12:30 USD USD Building Permits (MoM) -7.0% -4.5% 8.8%
  12:30 USD USD Housing Starts (MoM) 2.6% 4.7% -2.6%
  12:30 USD USD Housing Starts 717K 685K 699K
  12:30 CAD CAD Manufacturing Shipments (MoM) 1.9% 0.4% -0.2%
  12:30 USD USD Building Permits 715K 730K 769K
  13:15 USD USD Industrial Production 1.1% 0.6% -0.6%
  13:15 USD USD Capacity Utilization 79.2% 79.0% 78.4%
  13:15 USD USD Manufacturing (SIC) Production 0.6% -0.5%
  14:00 USD USD MBA Mortgage Foreclosures 4.39% 4.38%
  14:00 USD USD Mortgage Delinquencies 7.4% 7.6%
  14:30 USD USD DOE U.S. Gasoline Inventories -2797K -100K -2613K
  14:30 USD USD DOE U.S. Distillate Inventory -969K 150K -3251K
  14:30 USD USD DOE Cushing OK Crude Inventory 1000K 1163K
  14:30 USD USD DOE U.S. Crude Oil Inventories 2128K 1750K 3652K
  16:30 USD USD Fed's Bullard Speaks on U.S. Economy in Kentucky
  18:00 USD Fed Releases Minutes from April 24-25 FOMC Meeting
  22:00 NZD NZD ANZ NZ Job Ads (MoM) -2.0% -0.9%
  22:45 NZD NZD Producer Prices- Outputs (QoQ) -0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
  22:45 NZD NZD Producer Prices- Inputs (QoQ) 0.3% 0.0% 0.5%
  23:50 JPY JPY Gross Domestic Product Deflator (YoY) -1.2% -1.5% -1.9%
  23:50 JPY JPY Gross Domestic Product (QoQ) 1.0% 0.9% 0.0%
  23:50 JPY JPY Housing Loans (YoY) 2.2%
  23:50 JPY JPY Nominal Gross Domestic Product (QoQ) 1.0% 1.0% -0.3%
  23:50 JPY JPY Gross Domestic Product Annualized 4.1% 3.5% 0.1%
Thu May 17
  01:00 AUD AUD Consumer Inflation Expectation 3.1% 3.3%
  01:00 NZD NZD ANZ Consumer Confidence Index 113.9 114.0
  01:00 NZD NZD ANZ Consumer Confidence (MoM) -0.1% 3.4%
  01:30 AUD AUD RBA Foreign Exchange Transaction (Australian dollar) 944M
  01:30 AUD AUD Average Weekly Wages (QoQ) 1.0% 0.5%
  01:30 AUD AUD Average Weekly Wages (YoY) 4.1% 4.3%
  04:00 JPY JPY Tokyo Condominium Sales (YoY) -6.1%
  04:30 JPY JPY Industrial Production (MoM) 1.3% 1.0%
  04:30 JPY JPY Industrial Production (YoY) 14.2% 13.9%
  04:30 JPY JPY Capacity Utilization (MoM) 1.3% -1.7%
  06:00 JPY JPY Japan Machine Tool Orders [APR F] YoY 0.4% 0.5%
  07:00 EUR EUR Spain Gross Domestic Product (Constant s.a.) (YoY) (1Q F) -0.4% -0.4% -0.4%
  07:00 EUR EUR Spain Gross Domestic Product s.a. (QoQ) -0.3% -0.3% -0.3%
  08:30 EUR EUR Bonds-Spain to Sell 2015 and 2016 Bonds
  12:30 USD USD Continuing Claims 3265K 3225K 3247K
  12:30 CAD CAD Wholesale Sales (MoM) 0.4% 0.3% 1.5%
  12:30 USD USD Initial Jobless Claims 370K 365K 370K
  12:30 CAD CAD International Securities Transactions (Canadian dollar) -2.08B 8.00B 12.54B
  14:00 USD USD Philadelphia Fed. 10 8.5
  14:00 USD USD Leading Indicators 0.1% 0.3%
  14:30 CAD CAD Bank of Canada Publishes Review Collection of Academic Papers
  14:30 USD USD EIA Natural Gas Storage Change 30
  16:35 USD USD Fed's Bullard Speaks to Rotary Club of Louisville
Fri May 18
  USD Revisions: Durable Goods Benchmarks
  01:30 CNY CNY China April Property Prices
  01:35 CNY CNY MNI May Flash Business Sentiment Survey
  05:30 JPY JPY Nationwide Department Store Sales (YoY) 14.1%
  05:30 JPY JPY Tokyo Department Store Sales (YoY) 26.7%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Producer Prices (YoY) 2.5% 3.3%
  06:00 EUR EUR German Producer Prices (MoM) 0.3% 0.6%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index 121.7
  12:30 CAD CAD Bank Canada Consumer Price Index Core (YoY) 1.9% 1.9%
  12:30 CAD CAD Bank Canada Consumer Price Index Core (MoM) 0.1% 0.3%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index (MoM) 0.3% 0.4%
  12:30 CAD CAD Core CPI s.a. (MoM) 0.2% 0.1%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index s.a. (MoM) 0.2% 0.2%
  12:30 CAD CAD Consumer Price Index (YoY) 1.9% 1.9%
  12:30 USD USD Revisions: Factory Orders
  14:00 USD USD American Petroleum Institute Monthly Report