Date

Country/ Currency

Event

GMT

CONSENSUS

PREVIOUS

10-May

GBP

ODPM house prices

8:30

10.2%Y

9.8%Y

Mon

GBP

PPI (Apr)

8:30

1.9%Y

1.3%Y

CAD

Housing starts (Apr)

12:15

228k

247k

USD

FOMC Moskow speech (Chicago, IL)

14:30

EUR

Eurogroup meeting (Brussels)

GBP

Chinese Premier Wen visits London

BIS G10 Central Bank Governors meeting (Basel)

11-May

AUD

NAB business confidence (May)

1:30

12.9

Tue

JPY

Leading indicators (Mar)

5:00

67.8%

80.0%

JPY

Household spending (Mar)

5:00

-3.5%M

2.1%M

DEM

Trade (Mar)

6:00

Eur13.0bn

Eur12.1bn

FRF

Industrial production (Mar)

6:45

0.4%M

0.8%M

GBP

Industrial production (Mar)

8:30

0.6%M

-0.6%M

GBP

NIESR GDP estimate (Apr)

12:30

0.6%Q

USD

FOMC Moskow speech (Green Bay, WI)

17:15

USD

FOMC Santomero speech (New York, NY)

18:30

NZD

Unemployment (Q1)

22:45

4.6%

4.6%

EUR

Commission President Prodi speech (Brussels)

EUR

Ecofin meeting (Brussels)

OECD economic outlook published

12-May

AUD

Housing finance (Mar)

1:30

-0.5%M

-4.3%M

Wed

FRF

GDP - preliminary (Q1)

6:50

0.5%Q

0.7%Q

GBP

Claimant unemployment (Apr)

8:30

-5.0k

-4.2k

GBP

Trade (Mar)

8:30

GBP-4.4bn

GBP-4.2bn

EUR

ECB Liebscher speech (Vienna)

9:15

GBP

BoE inflation report

9:30

CAD

Trade (Mar)

12:30

CAD5.6bn

CAD5.7bn

USD

Trade (Mar)

12:30

USD-43.3bn

USD-42.1bn

EUR

ECB Louekoski speech (Helsinki)

JPY

BoJ Nakahara speech (Akita)

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13-May

AUD

Labor force survey (Apr)

1:30

10k

66.9k

Thu

DEM

GDP (Q1)

6:00

0.3%Q

0.2%Q

JPY

Machine orders (Mar)

6:00

4.4%M

4.9%M

FRF

CPI (Apr)

6:45

2.0%Y

1.7%Y

ITL

GDP - preliminary (Q1)

8:30

0.2%Q

0.0%Q

USD

PPI (Apr)

12:30

0.3%M

0.5%M

USD

Retail sales (Apr)

12:30

0.2%M

1.8%M

USD

Initial claims (8 May week)

12:30

325

315

NZD

Retail sales (Q1)

22:45

1.6%Q

1.2%Q

OECD Council meeting (Paris)

JPY

BoJ Fukui speech (Tokyo)

14-May

FRF

Non-farm payrolls

6:45

0.1%

Fri

ITL

CPI - final (Apr)

7:30

2.3%Y

2.3%Y

EUR

GDP - flash estimate (Q1)

9:00

0.40%

0.30%

CAD

Manufacturing shipments (Apr)

12:30

0.4%M

0.8%M

USD

CPI (Apr)

12:30

0.3%M

0.5%M

USD

Business inventories (Mar)

12:30

0.5%M

0.7%M

USD

Industrial production (Apr)

13:15

0.5%M

-0.2%M

USD

Univ of Michigan consumer confidence (May)

13:50

96.5

94.2

EUR

Conference on 'Five Years of Euro'

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