Forex Economic Calendar for May 23, 2013

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

FOREX GLOBAL ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Thu., May 23				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	ZAR	12:00 AM	Interest Rate Decision	-	5.00%	5%	5.00%

	SGD	01:00 AM	CPI (M-o-M)	APR	-1.5%	0.1%	-0.5%

	SGD	01:00 AM	CPI (Y-o-Y)	APR	1.5%	3.4%	3.5%

	SGD	01:00 AM	Industrial Production (M-o-M)	APR	2.5%	-0.35%	6.8 (R)%

	SGD	01:00 AM	Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)	APR	4.7%	0.75%	-3.8 (R)%

	DKK	03:00 AM	Retail Sales (M-o-M)	APR	-0.4%	-	-0.7 (R)%

	DKK	03:00 AM	Retail Sales (Y-o-Y)	APR	-1.5%	-	-4.4%

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	MAY P	45.5	45	44.4

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Composite	MAY P	44.3	-	44.3

	EUR	03:00 AM	PMI Services	MAY P	44.3	44.5	44.3

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Composite	MAY P	49.9	-	49.2

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Services	MAY P	49.8	50.03	49.6

	EUR	03:30 AM	PMI Manufacturing	MAY P	49.0	48.80	48.1

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Leading Index	MAR	0.3%	-	0.3%

	EUR	04:00 AM	CB Coincidence Index	MAR	0.2%	-	0.0 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (M-o-M)	MAR	-0.3%	-0.25%	-0.2%

	EUR	04:00 AM	Retail Sales (Y-o-Y)	MAR	-3.6%	-	-3.2 (R)%

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Services	MAY P	47.5	47.22	47.0

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Composite	MAY P	47.7	47.1	46.9

	EUR	04:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	MAY P	47.8	47.18	46.7

	GBP	04:30 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q1	0.3%	0.3%	-0.3%

	GBP	04:30 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q1	0.6%	-	0.2%

	GBP	04:30 AM	Index of Services (3M-o-3M)	MAR	0.6%	-	0.1%

	GBP	04:30 AM	Total Business Investment (Q-o-Q)	Q1 P	-0.4%	-	-0.8%

	GBP	04:30 AM	Total Business Investment (Y-o-Y)	Q1 P	0.7%	-	0.8%

	LVL	06:00 AM	PPI (Y-o-Y)	APR	1.4%	-	2.2%

	LVL	06:00 AM	PPI (M-o-M)	APR	0.1%	-	0.1%

	BRL	08:00 AM	Unemployment Rate	APR	5.8%	5.8%	5.7%

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

	USD	08:30 AM	Initial Jobless Claims	MAY 18	340K	345.5K	363 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Initial Jobless Claims - 4 Wk Average	MAY 18	339.50K	-	340.00 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Continuing Claims - 4 Wk Average	MAY 11	2995.25K	-	3019.00 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Continuing Claims	MAY 11	2912K	-	3024 (R)K

	USD	09:00 AM	House Price Index (Q-o-Q)	Q1	1.95%	-	1.50 (R)%

	USD	09:00 AM	PMI Manufacturing	MAY P	51.9	-	52.1

	USD	09:00 AM	House Price Index (M-o-M)	MAR	1.3%	0.8%	0.9 (R)%

	USD	09:00 AM	House Price Index (M-o-M)	MAR	-	-	0.7%

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Median Prices	APR	271.6K	-	250.7 (R)K

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Units	APR	454K	426.25K	444 (R)K

	USD	10:30 AM	EIA Natural Gas Inventory (Cubic Feet)	MAY 17	2053B	-	1964B

	NZD	06:45 PM	Trade Balance	APR	157M	-	732 (R)M

	NZD	06:45 PM	Exports	APR	3.95B	4.2B	4.42B

	NZD	06:45 PM	Imports	APR	3.80B	-	3.70B

	PHP	09:00 PM	Exports	MAR	4.33B	-	3.74B

	PHP	09:00 PM	Trade Balance	MAR	-593.0M	-	-967.0M

	PHP	09:00 PM	Imports	MAR	4.92B	-	4.71B