Economic Calendar With Volatility

This week's economic calendar includes many news releases from Europe, with several news releases from the US and Asia. Europe has most of the high volatility news releases this week, with the US and Asia only having a few high volatility news releases. As a result, the European markets will probably experience significant volatility throughout the week, while the US and Asian markets should experience some significant volatility at some point during 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 : Manufacturing Index at 12:30 PM, Capacity Utilization, and Industrial Production at 1:15 PM
• Tuesday : CPI at 12:30 PM, Long Term Transactions at 1:00 PM, Treasury News Conference at 2:00 PM, Housing Market Index at 5:00 PM, and FOMC News Conference, and Federal Funds Rate at 6:15 PM
• Wednesday : Building Permits, Current Account, and Housing Starts at 12:30 PM, Oil Inventories at 2:35 PM
• Thursday : Unemployment Claims at 12:30 PM, Manufacturing Index, and Leading Index at 2:00 PM, and Natural Gas Storage at 2:35 PM
• Friday : No News Releases

• This week's US news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are several US news releases this week, with a few high volatility news releases during the first half of the week, so the US markets will probably experience higher volatility at the beginning of the week.

Europe

• Monday : Switzerland PPI, and Retail Sales at 7:15 AM, and EU Central Bank News Conference at 9:00 AM
• Tuesday : Germany CPI at 6:00 AM, Switzerland Industrial Production at 7:15 AM, UK CPI, HPI, and RPI at 8:30 AM, EU CPI, Economic Sentiment, and Germany Economic Sentiment at 9:00 AM, UK Central Bank Inflation at ??:?? ?? (Unknown Time), and Switzerland News Conference at 3:00 PM
• Wednesday : UK Claimant Count Change, MPC Meeting, Average Earnings Index, and Unemployment Rate at 8:30 AM, Switzerland ZEW Expectations, and EU Trade Balance at 9:00 AM, and UK Industrial Orders at 10:00 AM
• Thursday : Switzerland Trade Balance at 6:15 AM, UK MPC News Conference at 8:00 AM, UK Retail Sales, Money Supply, and Public Sector Borrowing at 8:30 AM, and Switzerland LIBOR Rate, and Monetary Policy at 12:00 PM
• Friday : Germany PPI at 6:00 AM

• This week's European news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are many European news releases this week, and several high volatility news releases spread throughout the week, so the EU markets should experience some decent price movement this week.

Asia

• Monday : Australia Housing Starts at 1:30 AM
• Tuesday : Australia Monetary Policy at 1:30 AM, and Japan Household Confidence at 5:00 AM
• Wednesday : Australia Leading Index at 12:30 AM, Japan Overnight Call Rate at ??:?? ?? (Unknown Time), Australia Central Bank News Conference at 3:20 AM, Japan Central Bank News Conference at ??:?? ??, and Japan Industry Activity Index at 11:50 PM
• Thursday : Australia Central Bank Bulletin at 1:30 AM, Japan Central Bank Report at 5:00 AM, Japan Central Bank News Conference at 6:00 AM, and New Zealand Current Account, and Visitor Arrivals at 10:45 PM
• Friday : New Zealand Credit Card Spending at 3:00 AM

• This week's Asian news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are several Asian news releases this week, but only three high volatility news releases. Even so, the Asian markets should experience some decent price movement this week.