Euro Economic Calendar for May 24, 2012

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

EURO ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Thu., May 24				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	EUR	12:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	APR	6.1%	-	6.0%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q1	0.5%	-0.2%	-0.2%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Captial Investment	Q1	-1.1%	-	1.1%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q1	1.7%	-	1.5%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Construction Investment	Q1	-1.3%	-	1.9%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Private Consumption	Q1	0.4%	0.1%	-0.2%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Government Spending	Q1	0.2%	-	0.6 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Domestic Demand	Q1	-0.3%	-	0.2 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	APR	-0.1%	-	0.4%

	EUR	02:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	APR	1.4%	-	1.4%

	EUR	02:45 AM	Production Outlook Indicator	MAY	-29	-16	-14

	EUR	02:45 AM	Own-Company Production Outlook	MAY	-4	-5	-5 (R)

	EUR	02:45 AM	Business Confidence Indicator	MAY	93	93.67	95

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	MAY P	44.4	47	46.9

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Composite	MAY P	44.7	-	45.9

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Services	MAY P	45.2	46	45.2

	EUR	03:30 AM	Unemployment Rate	APR	6.2%	-	5.9%

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Manufacturing	MAY P	45.0	47	46.2

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Composite	MAY P	49.6	-	50.5

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Services	MAY P	52.2	52	52.2

	EUR	04:00 AM	Germany IFO - Business Climate	MAY	106.9	109.28	109.9

	EUR	04:00 AM	Germany IFO - Expectations	MAY	100.9	102.5	102.7

	EUR	04:00 AM	Germany IFO - Current Assessment	MAY	113.3	117	117.5

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	MAY P	45.0	45.75	45.9

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Services	MAY P	46.5	46.65	46.9

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Composite	MAY P	45.9	46.35	46.7

	EUR	09:00 AM	Business Sentiment	MAY	-11.2	-10.75	-10.7
Fri., May 25				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	EUR	12:00 AM	Imports	MAR	4.62M	-	1.58 (R)M

	EUR	12:00 AM	Trade Balance	MAR	-1.76M	-	-0.66 (R)M

	EUR	12:00 AM	Exports	MAR	2.85M	-	0.92 (R)M

	EUR	02:00 AM	GfK Consumer Confidence Survey	JUN	5.7	5.75	5.6

	EUR	02:45 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	MAY	90	88	89 (R)

	EUR	03:00 AM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	MAR	1.6%	-	-1.4%

	EUR	03:00 AM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	MAR	0.8%	-	-0.9%

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

	EUR	03:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	APR	3.1%	-	4.5 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (M-o-M)	MAR	-0.2%	-0.6%	0.9 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Coincidence Index	APR	-0.1%	-	0.0 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Leading Index	APR	-0.8%	-	0.1 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (Y-o-Y)	MAR	1.7%	-1.05%	0.5 (R)%

	EUR	05:00 AM	Hourly Wages (M-o-M)	APR	0.3%	-	0.0%

	EUR	05:00 AM	Hourly Wages (Y-o-Y)	APR	1.4%	-	1.2%

	EUR	05:00 AM	Retail Trade (M-o-M)	MAR P	5.14%	-	31.2%