Guide to Today's Important Data and Events
Quite a handful of economic dockets scheduled for today and some with high risks associated.
Upcoming –
- Australia – Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will announce policy decision at 4:30 GMT.
- Japan – Leading economic index and co-incident index will be announced at 5:00 GMT.
- Germany – Industrial production for April will be released at 6:00 GMT. Prior -1.3% y/y.
- France – Trade balance for will be announced at 6:45 GMT.
- China – PBOC may announce FX reserve details today.
- Switzerland – FX reserve will be announced at 7:00 GMT. Prior 588 billion.
- Spain – Industrial output for April will be released at 7:00 GMT. Prior 2.8%. House price index will be announced at 9:00 GMT.
- United Kingdom – Halifax house prices will be announced at 7:30 GMT.
- Euro Zone – First quarter GDP will be announced at 9:00 GMT. Expected 1.5%.
- United States - Nonfarm productivity will be announced at 12:30 GMT, along with unit labour cost. TIPP economic optimism will be announced at 14:00 GMT.
- Canada – IVEY PMI will be announced at 14:00 GMT.
- New Zealand – Manufacturing sales for first quarter will be announced at 22:45 GMT.
- Japan – First quarter GDP will be announced at 23:50 GMT.
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