Forex Economic Calendar for May 18, 2012

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

FOREX GLOBAL ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Fri., May 18				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	LTL	12:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	Q1	14.5%	-	13.9%

	EUR	12:00 AM	Trade Balance	MAR	-3.24B	-	-3.75B

	EUR	12:00 AM	Exports	MAR	19.89B	-	17.98B

	EUR	12:00 AM	Imports	MAR	23.13B	-	21.74B

	USD	12:00 AM	Official Foreign Reserves	MAY 18	150.42B	-	151.39B

	EUR	02:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	APR	0.2%	-	0.6%

	EUR	02:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	APR	2.4%	-	3.3%

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Coincidence Index	MAR	-0.2%	-	-0.2 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Leading Index	MAR	-0.9%	-	0.0 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Industrial Orders (M-o-M)	MAR	3.5%	-	-2.6 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Industrial Sales (M-o-M)	MAR	-	-1.2%	2.3 (R)%

	ISK	05:00 AM	CPI - EU Harmonised (M-o-M)	APR	0.5%	-	1.9%

	ISK	05:00 AM	CPI - EU Harmonised (Y-o-Y)	APR	7.2%	-	7.8%

	EUR	06:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	APR	0.6%	-	0.2%

	EUR	06:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	APR	3.6%	-	3.5%

	INR	07:30 AM	Official Foreign Reserves	MAY 11	291.80B	-	293.14B

	PLN	08:00 AM	Wages (M-o-M)	APR	-1.3%	-	5.7%

	PLN	08:00 AM	Wages (Y-o-Y)	APR	3.4%	4.1%	3.8%

	CAD	08:30 AM	Core CPI (Y-o-Y)	APR NSA	2.1%	1.93%	1.9%

	CAD	08:30 AM	CPI (Y-o-Y)	APR NSA	2.0%	1.87%	1.9%

	CAD	08:30 AM	Core CPI (M-o-M)	APR	0.4%	-	0.1%

	CAD	08:30 AM	CPI (M-o-M)	APR	0.2%	-	0.2%

	ARS	02:00 PM	Unemployment Rate	Q1	7.1%	-	6.7%
Sun., May 20				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	GBP	07:01 PM	Rightmove House Prices (Y-o-Y)	MAY	2.0%	-	3.4%

	GBP	07:01 PM	Rightmove House Prices (M-o-M)	MAY	-	-2.5%	0.0 (R)%

	NZD	10:00 PM	Credit Card Spending (Y-o-Y)	APR	3.7%	-	5.3 (R)%

	THB	11:30 PM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q1	0.3%	-1.3%	-8.9 (R)%

	THB	11:30 PM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q1	11.0%	10.3%	-10.8 (R)%
Mon., May 21				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	MYR	12:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	MAR	2.8%	-	2.9%

	JPY	12:30 AM	All Industry Activity Index (M-o-M)	MAR	-0.3%	-0.1%	-0.1%

	SGD	01:00 AM	Wholesale Sales (Y-o-Y)	Q1	-3.9%	-	-5.3%

	SGD	01:00 AM	Wholesale Sales (Q-o-Q)	Q1	2.3%	-	-4.7 (R)%

	EEK	01:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	APR	0.2%	-	0.2%

	EEK	01:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	APR	2.6%	-	3.2%

	JPY	01:00 AM	Leading Index	MAR F	96.4	-	96.1 (R)

	JPY	01:00 AM	Coincidence Index	MAR F	96.7	-	95.2 (R)

	JPY	01:00 AM	Lagging Index	MAR F	86.7	-	86.3

	CHF	01:45 AM	SECO Consumer Climate	APR	-8	-	-19

	CHF	03:00 AM	Official Foreign Reserves	APR	327.27B	-	321.73B

	CHF	03:00 AM	M3 Money Supply (M-o-M)	APR	0.74%	-	-0.14 (R)%

	CHF	03:00 AM	M3 Money Supply (Y-o-Y)	APR	6.3%	-	6.6%

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Coincidence Index	MAR	-	-	0.1 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Leading Index	MAR	0.4%	-	0.6%