Economic Calendar With Volatility

As you would expect with this week being the start of the Christmas and New Year holidays, this week's economic calendar includes only a few news releases from the US and Europe, and several news releases from Asia. The US has four high volatility news releases, while Europe and Asia only have one high volatility news release each. Markets from all three regions would usually continue experiencing high volatility throughout this week, but because of the holidays, almost every market will experience less trading activity than usual.

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 : No News Releases
• Tuesday : GDP at 1:30 PM, Consumer Sentiment, and Inflation Expectations at 2:55 PM, and Existing Home Sales, New Home Sales, HPI, and Manufacturing Index at 3:00 PM
• Wednesday : Durable Goods Orders, Unemployment Claims, Price Index, Personal Spending, and Personal Income at 1:30 PM, Oil Inventories at 3:35 PM, and Natural Gas Storage at 5:00 PM
• Thursday : No News Releases
• Friday : No News Releases

• This week's US news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are only a few US news releases this week, but four high volatility news releases. The US markets would probably continue experiencing high volatility and significant price movement this week, but as most of this week is a holiday, trading will be much less active than usual.

Europe

• Monday : Germany Consumer Climate, and Import Prices at 7:00 AM, EU Industrial Orders at 10:00 AM, and Belgium Business Climate at 2:00 PM
• Tuesday : France Consumer Spending at 7:45 AM, EU Current Account, and Italy Retail Sales at 9:00 AM, UK Current Account, Mortgage Approvals, GDP, and Services Index at 9:30 AM, and EU Central Bank News Conference at 5:30 PM
• Wednesday : Switzerland Central Bank Quarterly Bulletin at 10:00 AM
• Thursday : No News Releases
• Friday : No News Releases

• This week's European news releases that should cause high volatility are shown in bold type. There are only a few European news releases this week, and only one high volatility news release. The European markets would probably continue experiencing high volatility and significant price movement this week, but as most of this week is a holiday, trading will be less active than usual.

Asia

• Monday : Australia Motor Vehicle Sales at 12:30 AM, New Zealand Consumer Sentiment at 1:00 AM, Japan Central Bank News Conference, and Monthly Report at 5:00 AM, Japan Central Bank News Conference at 9:30 AM, New Zealand GDP at 9:45 PM, and Australia Leading Index at 11:00 PM
• Tuesday : Japan Manufacturing Index at 11:50 PM
• Wednesday : Japan Monetary Policy, and CSPI at 11:50 PM
• Thursday : Japan Housing Starts at 5:00 AM, Japan PMI Manufacturing at 11:15 PM, Japan Household Spending, CPI, and Unemployment Rate at 11:30 PM, and Japan Industrial Production, and Retail Sales at 11:50 PM
• Friday : Japan Average Cash Earnings at 1:30 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 one high volatility news release. Some of the Asian markets will probably continue experiencing high volatility and significant price movement this week, while some will experience less trading activity than usual because of the holidays.