Economic Calendar with Volatility

This week there are several news releases from each region (US, Europe, and Asia), and also a few high volatility news releases from each region as well. The highest volatility news releases will probably be the UK and EU Interest Rates and the associated EU Central Bank News Conference on Thursday.

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 : Factory Orders at 3:00 PM, and Central Bank News Conference at 4:20 PM
• Tuesday : ISM Non Manufacturing and Treasury News Conference at 3:00 PM
• Wednesday : Non Farm Productivity and Unit Labor Costs at 1:30 PM, Oil Inventories at 3:30 PM, and Central Bank News Conferences at 5:30 PM and 6:40 PM
• Thursday : Initial Claims at 1:30 PM, Pending Home Sales at 3:00 PM, Central Bank News Conference at 6:00 PM, and Consumer Credit at 8:00 PM
• Friday : Wholesale Inventories at 3:00 PM, and Central Bank News Conference at 5:55 PM

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

Europe

• Monday : EU Investor Confidence, and UK PMI Construction at 9:30 AM, and EU PPI at 10:00 AM
• Tuesday : Germany PMI Services at 8:55 AM, EU PMI Services at 9:00 AM, UK PMI Services at 9:30 AM, and EU Retail Sales, and Italian CPI at 10:00 AM
• Wednesday : UK Shop Price Index at 10:30 AM, and UK Leading Index at 3:30 PM
• Thursday : Switzerland Unemployment Rate at 6:45 AM, France Trade Balance at 7:45 AM, UK Industrial Production and Manufacturing Production at 9:30 AM, Germany Factory Orders at 11:00 AM, UK Interest Rates at 12:00 PM, EU Interest Rates at 12:45 PM, and EU Central Bank News Conference at 1:30 PM
• Friday : Switzerland CPI and Consumer Climate at 6:45 AM, Germany Trade Balance at 7:00 AM, and EU Leading Indicators, and Germany Industrial Production at 11:00 AM

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

Asia

• Monday : Australia Trade Balance and House Price Index at 12:30 AM, and New Zealand Labor Cost Index at 9:45 PM
• Tuesday : Australia Retail Sales and Building Approvals at 12:30 AM, New Zealand Commodity Price Index at 2:00 AM, and Australia Interest Rates at 3:30 AM
• Wednesday : Japan Leading Index at 5:00 AM, New Zealand Unemployment Rate at 9:45 PM, and Australia PMI Construction at 10:30 PM
• Thursday : Japan Machine Tool Orders at 6:00 AM, and Japan Machinery Orders and Money Supply at 11:50 PM
• Friday : Japan Economy Watchers' Index at 5:00 AM

• 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).