Economic Calendar with Volatility

This week's news is spread quite evenly across all three regions (US, European, and Asian), but most of the high volatility news is going to come from the US, so the US markets should be most affected by the news releases. The US, European, and Asian news releases for this week are as follows (all times are Greenwich Mean Time, which is 1 hour behind Central European Time, and 5 hours ahead of US Eastern Time) :

US

• Monday : New Home Sales at 3:00 PM
• Tuesday : Durable Goods Orders at 1:30 PM, HPI at 2:00 PM, and Consumer Confidence at 3:00 PM
• Wednesday : Non Farm Employment Change at 1:15 PM, GDP at 1:30 PM, Oil Inventories at 3:30 PM, and Interest Rates at 7:15 PM
• Thursday : Price Index, Personal Spending, Personal Income, ECI, and Initial Claims at 1:30 PM, and PMI at 2:45 PM
• Friday : Non Farm Employment Change, Unemployment Rate, and Average Hourly Earnings at 1:30 PM, ISM Manufacturing, Consumer Sentiment, and Construction Spending at 3:00 PM, and Domestic Vehicle Sales at ??:?? ?? (Unknown Time)

• This week's US news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type.

Europe

• Monday : EU Money Supply at 9:00 AM
• Tuesday : Switzerland Trade Balance at 7:15 AM, EU Current Account, and Switzerland Consumption Indicator at 9:00 AM, and UK Distributive Trades at 11:00 AM
• Wednesday : UK Mortgage Approvals, and Lending to Individuals at 9:30 AM, Switzerland Leading Index at 10:30 AM, and Switzerland Central Bank News Conference at ??:?? ?? (Unknown Time)
• Thursday : UK House Prices, and Germany Retail Sales at 7:00 AM, Germany Unemployment Rate at 8:55 AM, EU CPI, Consumer Confidence, and Umeployment Rate at 10:00 AM, UK Consumer Confidence at 10:30 AM, and Germany CPI at ??:?? ?? (Unknown Time)
• Friday : Switzerland PMI at 8:30 AM, Germany PMI Manufacturing at 8:55 AM, EU PMI Manufacturing at 9:00 AM, and UK PMI Manufacturing at 9:30 AM

• This week's European news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type.

Asia

• Monday : Japan Household Spending, and Unemployment Rate at 11:30 PM, and Japan Retail Sales at 11:50 PM
• Tuesday : Australia Business Confidence at 12:30 AM, New Zealand Building Consents at 9:45 PM, and Japan Industrial Production at 11:50 PM
• Wednesday : New Zealand Trade Balance at 9:45 PM, and Japan PMI Manufacturing at 11:15 PM
• Thursday : Japan Average Cash Earnings at 1:30 AM, Japan Housing Starts at 5:00 AM, and Australia PMI Manufacturing at 10:30 PM
• Friday : No news releases

• This week's Asian news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type (the only high volatility news is the New Zealand Trade Balance on Wednesday).