Economic Calendar with Volatility

This week's economic calendar includes a few news releases from each region (the US, Europe, and Asia). Each region also has at least a couple of high volatility news releases, so there should be some high volatility and significant price movements from all three regions at some point during this 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 : Leading Index at 2:00 PM
• Tuesday : Treasury News Conference at 12:10 PM, FOMC News Conference at 12:30 PM, and House Price Index, and Manufacturing Index at 2:00 PM
• Wednesday : Oil Inventories at 2:35 PM, and Beige Book at 6:00 PM
• Thursday : Unemployment Claims at 12:30 PM, Existing Home Sales, and FOMC News Conference at 2:00 PM, and Natural Gas Storage at 2:35 PM
• Friday : Durable Goods Orders at 12:30 PM, Consumer Sentiment at 1:55 PM, and New Home Sales at 2:00 PM

• This week's US news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are only three high volatility news releases this week, and they are all occuring on Thursday and Friday, so the US markets may experience their highest volatility at the end of the week.

Europe

• Monday : Switzerland PPI at 7:15 AM
• Tuesday : Switzerland Trade Balance at 6:15 AM, and UK Central Bank News Conference at 6:45 AM
• Wednesday : France Consumer Spending at 6:45 AM, Italy Retail Sales at 8:00 AM, UK MPC Meeting, and Mortgage Approvals at 8:30 AM, and EU Industrial Orders at 9:00 AM
• Thursday : France PMI Manufacturing and Services at 7:00 AM, Germany PMI Manufacturing and Services at 7:30 AM, Germany Business Climate Index, Business Expectations Index, EU PMI Manufacturing and Services, and EU Current Account at 8:00 AM, UK Retail Sales at 8:30 AM, and UK MPC News Conference at 5:00 PM
• Friday : EU Money Supply at 8:00 AM, and UK GDP, and Services Index at 8:30 AM

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

Asia

• Monday : Australia PPI, and Vehicle Sales at 1:30 AM, New Zealand Credit Card Spending at 3:05 AM, and Japan Industry Activity Index at 11:50 PM
• Tuesday : No news releases
• Wednesday : Australia CPI at 1:30 AM, New Zealand Monetary Policy, and Cash Rate at 9:00 PM, and Japan Trade Balance at 11:50 PM
• Thursday : Japan CPI at 11:30 PM, and Japan CSPI at 11:50 PM
• Friday : No news releases

• 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 volatility at some point during the week.