Forex Economic Calendar for August 23, 2012

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

FOREX GLOBAL ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Thu., Aug 23				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	ARS	12:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	AUG	42.74	-	43.59

	SGD	01:00 AM	CPI (M-o-M)	JUL	0.2%	-	0.0%

	SGD	01:00 AM	CPI (Y-o-Y)	JUL	4.0%	5.2%	5.3%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Captial Investment	Q2	-0.9%	-	-0.9 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Construction Investment	Q2	-0.3%	-	-0.8 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q2	0.3%	-	0.5%

	EUR	02:00 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q2	0.5%	-	1.7%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Domestic Demand	Q2	-0.1%	-	-0.2 (R)%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Government Spending	Q2	0.2%	-	0.2%

	EUR	02:00 AM	Private Consumption	Q2	0.4%	-	0.1 (R)%

	CHF	02:00 AM	Exports	JUL	17.41B	-	16.89B

	CHF	02:00 AM	Imports	JUL	14.49B	-	14.64B

	CHF	02:00 AM	Trade Balance	JUL	2.92B	-	2.25B

	DKK	03:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	AUG	-	-	0.1

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Composite	AUG P	48.9	-	47.9

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	AUG P	46.2	43.67	43.4

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Services	AUG P	50.2	50.07	50.0

	SEK	03:30 AM	Unemployment Rate	JUL	7.5%	-	7.5%

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Services	AUG P	48.3	50.15	50.3

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Composite	AUG P	47.0	-	47.5

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Manufacturing	AUG P	45.1	43.25	43.0

	NOK	04:00 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q2 NSA	5.0%	-	4.6 (R)%

	NOK	04:00 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q2	1.0%	-	1.2 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	AUG P	45.3	44.14	44.0

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Composite	AUG P	46.6	46.7	46.5

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Services	AUG P	47.5	47.88	47.9

	GBP	04:30 AM	BBA Loans for House Purchase	JUL	28.44K	-	25.94 (R)K

	ISK	05:00 AM	Wage Cost Index (M-o-M)	JUL	0.1%	-	0.0%

	ISK	05:00 AM	Wage Cost Index (Y-o-Y)	JUL	6.0%	-	11.2 (R)%

	EUR	05:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	JUL	6.2%	-	6.1%

	BGN	05:00 AM	M3 Money Supply (M-o-M)	JUL	2.43%	-	0.17%

	BGN	05:00 AM	M3 Money Supply (Y-o-Y)	JUL	9.9%	-	10.2%

	GBP	06:00 AM	CBI Distributive Trades Report	AUG	-3	15	11

	PLN	08:00 AM	Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes	-	-	-	-

	BRL	08:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	JUL	6.5%	-	6.1%

	USD	08:30 AM	Continuing Claims	AUG 11	3317K	3300K	3313 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Continuing Claims - 4 Wk Average	AUG 11	3311.50K	-	3305.00 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Initial Jobless Claims	AUG 18	372K	365K	366K

	USD	08:30 AM	Initial Jobless Claims - 4 Wk Average	AUG 18	368K	-	363.75K

	USD	09:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	AUG P	51.9	-	51.4

	BRL	09:30 AM	Capital Account Balance - BoP	JUL	-3.47B	-	0.18B

	BRL	09:30 AM	Financial Account Balance - BoP	JUL	7.58B	-	4.79B

	BRL	09:30 AM	Current Account Balance - BoP	JUL	-3.77B	-4.6B	-4.42B

	USD	10:00 AM	House Price Index (Q-o-Q)	Q2	1.80%	2.7%	0.89 (R)%

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Median Prices	JUL	224.2K	-	229.1 (R)K

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Units	JUL	372K	367.5K	359 (R)K

	USD	10:00 AM	House Price Index (M-o-M)	JUN	0.7%	0.6%	0.6 (R)%

	USD	10:30 AM	EIA Natural Gas Inventory (Cubic Feet)	AUG 17	3308B	-	3261B

	ARS	03:00 PM	Capacity Utilization (M-o-M)	JUL	71.3%	-	72.0%

	ARS	03:00 PM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	JUL	1.4%	-	-0.1%

	ARS	03:00 PM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	JUL	-1.8%	-	-4.4%

	NZD	06:45 PM	Exports	JUL	4.0B	-	4.2B

	NZD	06:45 PM	Imports	JUL	3.10B	-	3.9B

	NZD	06:45 PM	Trade Balance	JUL	15M	60M	287 (R)M

	JPY	07:50 PM	Corp Service Price (Y-o-Y)	JUL	-0.2%	-	-0.4 (R)%

	AUD	08:00 PM	CB Leading Index	JUN	0.2%	-	0.4%

	AUD	08:00 PM	CB Coincidence Index	JUN	0.1%	-	0.3%