The main events of Thursday!

On Thursday, March 14, the market’s attention will be focused on the results of the UK Parliament’s vote on the Brexit extension.

At 02:01 –  RICS house price balance (February) in the UK will be released, forecast  -24%, previous value  -22%.

At 04:00 – data on China will be published:
– Investments in fixed assets (y/y) (Jan),  forecast  6.0%, previous value  5.9%.
– Industrial Production (y/y) (Jan), forecast 5.5%, previous value 5.7%.
– The unemployment rate in China,  previous value  4.9%.

At 09:00 – Germany will announce the consumer price index (CPI) (m/m) (Feb), forecast  0.5%,  previous value  0.5%.

At 09:30 – Swiss Producer Price Index (PPI) (m/m) (Feb) will be released, the forecast is -0.1%, previous value -0.7%.

At 14:30 – the US data will be published:
– Export Price Index (m/m) (Feb), forecast 0.1%, previous -0.6%.
– Import price index (m/m) (Feb), forecast 0.3%, previous value -0.5%.
– The number of initial claims for unemployment benefits, forecast 225K,  previous value  223K.

Also at 14:30 – new housing price index (m / m) (January) in Canada will be released, forecast  0.0%, previous value 0.0%.

At 16:00 – data on real estate sales in the United States:
– New home sales (m/m) (January), forecast  -0.6%,  previous value 3.7%.
– New home sales (January), forecast 622K,  previous value  621K.

At 23:30 – PMI (February) of New Zealand will announce the business activity index in the manufacturing sector,  previous value  53.1.

Hanzenko Anton