The main events of Friday!

On Friday, October 19, the day is saturated with  inflation data in Japan and Canada and data on China’s GDP.

At 02:30 –  inflation data in Japan :
–  National Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) (y/y) (Sep),  forecast 1.0%,  previous value  0.9%.
– National CPI (m/m), previous value  0.5%.

At 05:00 –  data for China:
– Investments in fixed assets (y/y) (September),  forecast 5.3%,  previous value 5.3%.
– GDP (q/q) (Q3), forecast  1.6%, previous value 1.8%.
– GDP (y/y) (Q3),  forecast 6.6%,  previous value  6.7%.
– Industrial production (y/y) (September),  forecast  6.0%,  previous value  6.1%.
– Chinese Unemployment rate,  previous value  5.0%.
– Press conference of the NBS.

At 09:30 – the speech of the Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda.

At 15:30 –  inflation report in Canada:
– Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) (y/y) (September), forecast 1.8%, previous value 1.7%.
– Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) (m/m) (September),  previous value 0.1%.
– Core retail sales (m/m) (August),  forecast of 0.2%,  previous value 0.9%.
– Consumer price index (CPI) (m/m) (September), forecast -0.1%, previous value -0.1%.
– Retail sales (m/m) (August),  forecast 0.3%,  previous value  0.3%.

At 17:00 –   report on real estate sales in the secondary market of the USA :
– Existing home sales  (September), forecast of 5.31M, previous value  5.34M.
– Existing home sales  (m/m) (September), forecast -0.7%,  previous value  0.0%.

At 18:30 – the speech of the Bank of England Governor Carney.

At 20:00 –   number of Baker Hughes oil rigs in the USA, previous value  869.

Hanzenko Anton