Forex Economic Calendar for February 24, 2012

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

FOREX GLOBAL ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Fri., Feb 24				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	EUR	12:00 AM	Imports	DEC	21.55B	-	22.54B

	EUR	12:00 AM	Exports	DEC	17.00B	-	19.87B

	EUR	12:00 AM	Trade Balance	DEC	-4.55B	-	-2.67B

	SGD	12:00 AM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	JAN	3.3%	3.1%	7.8%

	SGD	12:00 AM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	JAN	-8.8%	0%	12.6%

	KRW	12:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	100	-	98

	EUR	12:00 AM	Exports	DEC	995.2M	-	972.7 (R)M

	EUR	12:00 AM	Trade Balance	DEC	-501.6M	-	-470.8 (R)M

	EUR	12:00 AM	Imports	DEC	1496.8M	-	1443.6 (R)M

	USD	12:00 AM	Official Foreign Reserves	FEB 24	149.26B	-	148.54B

	EUR	02:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	JAN	1.0%	-	-0.4%

	EUR	02:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	JAN	1.8%	-	1.8%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Construction Investment	Q4 F	1.9%	-	-1.0 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Captial Investment	Q4 F	1.1%	-	0.3 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Domestic Demand	Q4 F	0.1%	-	0.5 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Government Spending	Q4 F	0.1%	-	0.6%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Private Consumption	Q4 F	-0.2%	0%	1.2 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q4 F	-0.2%	-	0.6 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q4 F	1.5%	-	2.6 (R)%

	EUR	02:45 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	82	80	81

	HUF	03:00 AM	Retail Sales (M-o-M)	DEC	0.1%	-	0.2%

	HUF	03:00 AM	Retail Sales (Y-o-Y)	DEC	1.5%	-	1.1%

	CZK	03:00 AM	Business Climate Indicator	FEB	90.3	-	89.4

	CZK	03:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	76.2	-	76.4

	EUR	03:00 AM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	DEC	-3.1%	-	2.5%

	EUR	03:00 AM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	DEC	-4.5%	-	0.0%

	EUR	03:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	JAN	0.8%	-	-0.1%

	EUR	03:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	JAN	3.6%	-	5.2%

	ISK	04:00 AM	CPI (Y-o-Y)	FEB	6.3%	6%	6.5%

	ISK	04:00 AM	CPI (M-o-M)	FEB	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (M-o-M)	DEC	-1.1%	-0.45%	-0.7 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (Y-o-Y)	DEC	-3.7%	-1.9%	-1.8%

	EUR	04:30 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	JAN	-	-	0.1%

	EUR	04:30 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	JAN	2.4%	-	3.6%

	GBP	04:30 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q4	0.7%	0.80%	0.8%

	GBP	04:30 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q4	-0.2%	-0.2%	0.5 (R)%

	GBP	04:30 AM	Index of Services (3M-o-3M)	DEC	-	0%	0.1%

	GBP	04:30 AM	Total Business Investment (Y-o-Y)	Q4	-2.0%	-	5.4 (R)%

	GBP	04:30 AM	Total Business Investment (Q-o-Q)	Q4	-5.6%	-	1.0 (R)%

	INR	06:30 AM	Official Foreign Reserves	FEB 17	293.44B	-	293.38B

	MXN	09:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	JAN	4.79%	-	4.99 (R)%

	MXN	09:00 AM	Imports	JAN P	29.88B	-	29.14B

	MXN	09:00 AM	Exports	JAN P	29.41B	-	29.14B

	MXN	09:00 AM	Trade Balance	JAN P	-468.8M	250M	6.6M

	USD	09:55 AM	Univ. of Mich. Consumer Confidence Index	FEB	75.3	-	75.0

	MXN	10:00 AM	Capital Account Balance - BoP	Q4	12.37B	-	7.91 (R)B

	MXN	10:00 AM	Current Account Balance - BoP	Q4	-3.49B	-2B	-3.43 (R)B

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Median Prices	JAN	217.1K	-	216.5 (R)K

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Units	JAN	321K	322.5K	324 (R)K

	MXN	11:00 AM	CB Leading Index	DEC	0.2%	-	1.2 (R)%

	MXN	11:00 AM	CB Coincidence Index	DEC	-0.5%	-	0.6 (R)%

	ARS	02:00 PM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	JAN	2.2%	-	1.4%

	ARS	02:00 PM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	JAN	-1.5%	-	0.9%