Monday, May 6, 2002
GMT
N/A E.U. Euro group finance ministers meet
0645 France April Business Sentiment
0800 France French president to name new prime minister
1230 Canada March Building Permits (seen -2.0%, last -4.2%)
1300 France Weekly T-bill Auction results
1900 U.S. Treasury STRIPS
0130 Japan 6-month Treasury Bill Auction
Tuesday, May 7, 2002
GMT
N/A Germany Confirmation of EUR8 Bln, 5-year federal bills
N/A E.U. E.U. finance ministers meet
N/A Germany March Manufacturing Orders
0430 Japan 6-month Treasury Bill Auction results
0700 Germany April Unemployment
1230 U.S. First-Quarter Preliminary Nonfarm Productivity (last
+5.2%)
1300 U.S. BTM-UBS Warburg Chain Store Sales Index for May 4
Week (last -1.7%)
1300 U.S. Federal Open Market Committee meets. Interest rate
decision expected at 1415 ET (1815 GMT).
1300 U.S. Redbook Retail Sales for May 4 Week (last -0.1%)
1400 U.S. March Wholesale Inventories (last +0.8%)
1900 U.S. March Consumer Credit
0130 Japan 5-year Bond Auction
0200 Japan April Auto Imports (last -2.8% YY)
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
GMT
N/A U.S. E.U. Energy Commissioner de Palacio in Washington
N/A E.U. E.U.-Canada summit
N/A Germany March Industrial Production
0430 Japan 5-year Bond Auction results
0500 Japan March All-Household Spending (last -3.8% YY)
0800 France Weekly cabinet meeting
0830 U.K. March Industrial Production (last -0.2% MM, -5.1%
YY)
0830 U.K. March Manufacturing Production (last +0.4% MM, -5.8%
YY)
1100 U.S. MBA Refinancing Index (last +16.1%)
1215 Canada April Housing Starts (seen 185K, last +200K)
1230 Canada March Department Store Sales (seen +0.5%, last -1.6%)
1400 Canada April Purchasing Manager's Index (seen 60.0, last
61.6)
0000 U.S. Fed Governor Bies speaks at a dinner for Directors
and Atlanta's Community Leaders in Atlanta
Thursday, May 9, 2002
GMT
1100 U.K. Bank of England Rate Decision (last unchanged at
4.0%)
1100 U.K. BRC April Shop Price Index (last +0.69% YY)
1230 Canada April Help-Wanted Index (seen 127, last 126)
1230 U.S. April Import Prices (last +1.1%)
1230 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims For May 4 Week (last -10K)
1330 U.S. Chicago Fed President Moskow addresses the Conference
on Bank Structure and Competition in Chicago
1345 U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Ferguson speaks on
Business Resumption Plans Post-Sept. 11 at the
Conference on Bank Structure and Competition in
Chicago
1400 U.S. DJ-BTM Business Barometer (last +0.4%)
1600 U.S. March Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index (last
+0.5%)
1800 U.S. Federal Open Market Committee releases minutes of
March 19 meeting
2350 Japan April Bank Lending (last -4.5% YY)
2350 Japan April Money Supply (last +3.8% YY)
2350 Japan April Wholesale Price Index (last -1.3% YY)
2030 U.S. Money Supply
0130 Japan 15-year Floating-rate Government Bond Auction
Friday, May 10, 2002
GMT
0430 Japan 15-year Floating-rate Government Bond Auction results
0830 U.K. March global good trade deficit (last GBP2.62 Bln)
1230 U.S. April Producer Price Index (last +1.0%)
1230 U.S. April Producer Price Index, ex-food & energy (last
+0.1%)
1400 U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan speaks on
Cyclicality and Banking Regulation at the Conference
on Bank Structure and Competition in Chicago
1700 U.S. Chicago Fed President Moskow moderates a presentation
at the Conference on Bank Structure and Competition
in Chicago