Forex Economic Calendar for May 4, 2010

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

FOREX GLOBAL ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Tue., May 04				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	INR	12:00 AM	Exports	MAR	-	-	16.09B

	INR	12:00 AM	Trade Balance	MAR	-	-	-8.97B

	INR	12:00 AM	Imports	MAR	-	-	25.06B

	RON	12:00 AM	Interest Rate Decision	-	6.25%	-	6.50%

	SGD	12:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	APR	-	50.5	51.1

	EUR	12:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	APR	6.9 %	-	7.3 %

	AUD	12:30 AM	Interest Rate Decision	-	4.50%	4.50%	4.25%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Retail Sales (Y-o-Y)	MAR	2.7 %	-0.5 %	-0.4 (R) %

	EUR	02:00 AM	Retail Sales (M-o-M)	MAR	-2.4 %	-0.2 %	1.1 (R) %

	PLN	03:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	APR	52.5	-	52.5

	HUF	03:00 AM	Exports	FEB F	5.25B	-	4.78B

	HUF	03:00 AM	Imports	FEB F	4.88B	-	4.49B

	HUF	03:00 AM	Trade Balance	FEB F	373.3M	-	290.3M

	HUF	03:00 AM	Trade Balance	FEB F	-	-	290M

	EUR	03:00 AM	Unemployment Change	APR	-	-	36K

	RON	03:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	MAR	1.0 %	-	0.3 %

	RON	03:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	MAR	4.5 %	-	2.9 %

	GBP	04:30 AM	Mortgage Approvals	MAR	49 K	50 K	47 K

	GBP	04:30 AM	Net Lending Sec. on Dwellings	MAR	0.3B	1.6B	1.8 (R)B

	GBP	04:30 AM	PMI Manufacturing	APR	58.0	57.5	57.2

	GBP	04:30 AM	Net Consumer Credit	MAR	0.3B	0.5B	0.6 (R)B

	GBP	04:30 AM	M4 Money Supply (M-o-M)	MAR F	0.2 %	-	0.2 %

	GBP	04:30 AM	M4 Money Supply (Y-o-Y)	MAR F	3.6 %	-	3.5 %

	EUR	05:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	Q4	7.4 %	-	6.9 %

	EUR	05:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	MAR	0.9 %	1 %	-0.5 %

	EUR	05:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	MAR	0.6 %	0.8 %	0.1 %

	ZAR	05:30 AM	Unemployment Rate	Q1	25.2 %	-	24.3 %

	ZAR	05:30 AM	Participation Rate	Q1	54.6 %	-	54.8 %

	ZAR	05:30 AM	Unemployment Change	Q1	4310K	-	4165K

	BRL	08:00 AM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	MAR	2.8 %	1.4 %	1.5 %

	BRL	08:00 AM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	MAR	19.7 %	17.8 %	18.4 %

	USD	10:00 AM	Factory Goods Orders (M-o-M)	MAR	1.3 %	-0.1 %	1.3 (R) %

	MXN	10:00 AM	Official Foreign Reserves	APR 30	97.40B	-	97.33B

	MXN	10:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	APR	82.5	82.5	81.8

	USD	10:00 AM	Factory Goods Orders Ex. Defence (M-o-M)	MAR	1.3%	-	1.8 (R)%

	USD	10:00 AM	Pending Home Sales Index	MAR	5.3%	4.0%	8.2%

	USD	10:00 AM	Factory Goods Orders Ex. Transporation M-o-M	MAR	3.1 %	-	1.5 (R) %

	USD	05:00 PM	ABC News Consumer Confidence Index	MAY 2	-47	-	-49

	GBP	07:01 PM	BRC Shop Price Index (Y-o-Y)	APR	2.0%	-	1.2 %

	GBP	07:01 PM	Nationwide Consumer Confidence	APR	-	73	72

	AUD	07:30 PM	AiG Performance of Service Index	APR	52.3	-	48.4

	AUD	09:30 PM	Building Approvals (Y-o-Y)	MAR	51.6%	25.6 %	34.2 %

	AUD	09:30 PM	Building Approvals (M-o-M)	MAR	15.3%	0.8%	-2.7% (R)