Tuesday, July 13, 2010

This Week’s Economic Calendar

This is a fairly busy week for economic news, although most of it may be overshadowed by the start of quarterly earnings season. Highlights include an extensive amount of data coming out of China Wednesday night, plus US retail sales on Wednesday and a series of US industrial and regional data on Thursday.

North America:

Major economic data releases scheduled for this week include:

Tuesday July 13 – Canada and US trade balances; US monthly budget
Wednesday July 14 – US retail sales, business inventories, FOMC meeting minutes
Thursday July 15 – Canada auto sales, manufacturing sales; US production prices, jobless claims, Empire manufacturing survey, industrial production, Philadelphia Fed
Friday July 16 – Canada leading indicator; US consumer prices, international capital flows, U of Michigan confidence
Monday July 19 – Canada international capital flows

Asia Pacific:

Monday July 12 – Australia NAB business conditions; Japan industrial production, consumer confidence
Tuesday July 13 – Australia Westpac consumer confidence
Wednesday July 14 – China GDP, retail sales, producer prices, consumer prices, industrial production, Japan BoJ interest rate decision
Thursday July 15 – none
Sunday July 18 – none

Europe:

Tuesday July 13 – UK consumer prices, Germany ZEW economic sentiment survey
Wednesday July 14 – UK jobless claims
Thursday July 15 – none
Friday July 16 – none
Monday July 19 – none

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