Economic Calendar with Volatility

There are a few news releases from each region this week, and each region has a couple of high volatility news releases. Most of the high volatility news releases are happening on Thursday, so the world's markets should all experience some significant price movement towards the end of the week.

The US, European, and Asian news releases for this week are as follows (all times are Greenwich Mean Time, which is 2 hours behind Central European Time, and 4 hours ahead of US Eastern Time) :

US

• Monday : Consumer Credit at 8:00 PM, and Central Bank News Conference at 10:30 PM
• Tuesday : Pending Home Sales at 3:00 PM, and FOMC Meeting at 7:00 PM
• Wednesday : Central Bank News Conference at 2:30 PM, Wholesale Inventories at 3:00 PM, Oil Inventories at 3:30 PM, and Central Bank News Conference at 6:30 PM
• Thursday : Trade Balance, and Initial Claims at 1:30 PM, and Central Bank News Conference at 6:00 PM
• Friday : Import Price Index at 1:30 PM, Central Bank News Conference at 2:00 PM, and Consumer Sentiment at 3:00 PM

• This week's US news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are several high volatility news releases this week, so the US markets should experience some significant price movement throughout the week.

Europe

• Monday : Switzerland Unemployment Rate at 6:45 AM, France Trade Balance at 7:45 AM, EU Investor Confidence at 9:30 AM, and Germany Industrial Production at 11:00 AM
• Tuesday : No news releases
• Wednesday : Germany Trade Balance at 7:00 AM, UK Industrial Production, and Manufacturing Production at 9:30 AM, EU GDP at 10:00 AM, and UK Shop Price Index at 10:30 AM
• Thursday : France Industrial Production at 7:45 AM, Italy Industrial Production at 9:00 AM, UK Trade Balance at 9:30 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 : EU Leading Indicators at 11:00 AM

• This week's European news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are a few high volatility news releases towards the end of this week, so the EU markets should experience some significant price movement this week.

Asia

• Monday : Australia PMI Construction at 12:30 AM, Australia Trade Balance, and Building Approvals at 2:30 AM, Japan Leading Index at 6:00 AM, and New Zealand Business Confidence at 11:00 PM
• Tuesday : Australia Business Confidence at 2:30 AM, and Japan Economy Watchers Index at 6:00 AM
• Wednesday : Australia Consumer Sentiment at 1:30 AM, Japan Interest Rates at ??:?? ?? (Unknown time), and Japan Central Bank Monthly Report, and Machine Tool Orders at 7:00 AM
• Thursday : Japan Machinery Orders, Current Account, and Money Supply at 12:50 AM, New Zealand Manufacturing Index at 1:00 AM, and Australia Unemployment Rate and Change at 2:30 AM
• Friday : Japan CGPI at 12:50 AM

• This week's Asian news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are a couple of high volatility news releases this week, so the Asian markets should experience some significant price movement this week.