Forex Economic Calendar for February 24, 2011

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

FOREX GLOBAL ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Thu., Feb 24				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	PHP	12:00 AM	Business Confidence Indicator	Q1	47.5	-	50.6

	KRW	12:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	105	-	108

	EUR	02:00 AM	Captial Investment	Q4 F	1.1%	-	1.3%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q4 F	4.0%	-	3.9%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Domestic Demand	Q4 F	-0.4%	-	0.4%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Construction Investment	Q4 F	-3.9%	-	-0.4%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Exports	Q4 F	2.5%	-	2.3%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Government Spending	Q4 F	0.6%	-	1.5 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Imports	Q4 F	0.9%	-	1.9%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q4 F	0.4%	0.4%	0.7%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Private Consumption	Q4 F	0.2%	-	0.4%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	20.0	-	16.6

	EUR	02:45 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	85	-	85

	EUR	03:00 AM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	DEC	2.8%	-	6.5%

	EUR	03:00 AM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	DEC	-2.8%	-	1.6%

	SEK	03:15 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	21.4	22.8	23.7

	CHF	03:15 AM	Employment (Q-o-Q)	Q4	0.1 %	-	0.6 %

	CHF	03:15 AM	Employment (Y-o-Y)	Q4	1.2 %	-	1.0 %

	HKD	03:30 AM	Exports	JAN	283.68B	-	253.00B

	HKD	03:30 AM	Imports	JAN	299.65B	-	296.55B

	HKD	03:30 AM	Trade Balance	JAN	-15.96B	-	-43.54B

	ISK	04:00 AM	CPI (Y-o-Y)	FEB	1.9%	-	1.8%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (Y-o-Y)	DEC	0.1 %	-	-0.1 (R) %

	ISK	04:00 AM	CPI (M-o-M)	FEB	1.2%	-	-0.9%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (M-o-M)	DEC	0.2 %	-	-0.5 %

	ZAR	04:30 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	JAN	1.1 %	-	0.3 %

	ZAR	04:30 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	JAN	5.5 %	-	5.8 %

	EUR	05:00 AM	Business Climate Indicator	FEB	1.46	-	1.58

	EUR	05:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	-10	-	-11.2

	EUR	05:00 AM	Economic Confidence Index	FEB	107.8	106.8	106.8

	EUR	05:00 AM	Services Confidence Index	FEB	11.1	-	9.9

	EUR	05:00 AM	Business Sentiment	FEB	103	103.9	103.4

	EUR	05:00 AM	Industrial Confidence Index	FEB	6.5	6.5	6.1

	EUR	05:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	-49.1	-	-50.1

	GBP	06:00 AM	CBI Distributive Trades Report	FEB	6	30	37

	BRL	07:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	JAN	6.1 %	6.0 %	5.3 %

	USD	08:30 AM	Continuing Claims	FEB 12	3790K	-	3935 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Initial Jobless Claims	FEB 19	391K	403K	413 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Durable Goods Orders (M-o-M)	JAN	2.7%	3.0%	-2.5%

	USD	08:30 AM	Durable Goods Orders Ex. Defence (M-o-M)	JAN	1.9%	-	-2.5%

	USD	08:30 AM	Durable Goods Orders Ex. Transporation (M-o-M)	JAN	-3.6%	0.4%	0.5%

	CAD	08:30 AM	Avg Hourly Earnings	DEC	872.12	-	865.30 (R)

	CAD	08:30 AM	Non-Farm Payroll (M-o-M)	DEC	40.9K	-	36.5 (R)K

	MXN	09:00 AM	Imports	JAN P	27.90B	-	27.00 (R)B

	MXN	09:00 AM	Exports	JAN P	28.14B	-	27.14 (R)B

	MXN	09:00 AM	Trade Balance	JAN P	239.2M	-	139.1 (R)M

	USD	10:00 AM	House Price Index (Q-o-Q)	Q4	-0.8%	-	-1.6%

	MXN	10:00 AM	CPI (Bi-Weekly)	FEB 15	0.21%	0.17%	0.11%

	MXN	10:00 AM	Core CPI (Bi-Weekly)	FEB 15	0.22%	0.17%	0.23%

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Median Prices	JAN	230.6K	-	235.0 (R)K

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Units	JAN	284 K	300 K	325 (R) K

	USD	10:00 AM	House Price Index (M-o-M)	DEC	-0.3 %	-	-0.3 (R) %

	USD	10:30 AM	EIA Natural Gas Inventory (Cubic Feet)	FEB 18	1830B	-	1911B

	USD	11:00 AM	EIA Crude Oil Inventory (Barrels)	FEB 18	346.7M	-	345.9M

	USD	01:30 PM	EIA Crude Oil Price	FEB 18	85.12	-	86.69

	KRW	06:00 PM	Current Account Balance - BoP	JAN	0.23B	-	2.11B

	JPY	06:30 PM	Core CPI (M-o-M)	JAN	-0.4 %	-	0.0 %

	JPY	06:30 PM	CPI (Y-o-Y)	JAN	-	-0.1%	0.0 %

	JPY	06:30 PM	CPI (M-o-M)	JAN	-0.2%	-	-0.3 %

	JPY	06:30 PM	Tokyo CPI (Y-o-Y)	FEB	-0.1%	-0.2%	-0.1 %

	JPY	06:30 PM	Core CPI (Y-o-Y)	JAN	-0.2%	-0.3 %	-0.4 %

	JPY	06:30 PM	Tokyo Core CPI (Y-o-Y)	FEB	-0.4%	-0.3 %	-0.2 %

	GBP	07:01 PM	GfK Consumer Confidence Survey	FEB	-28	-27	-29