The main events of Friday!

On Friday, December 28, the last trading day of 2018 will be full of statistics.

At 01:30 –  inflation data in Japan will be released:
– Jobs/applcations ratio o (November),  forecast  1.63,  previous value 1.62.
– Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Tokyo (y/y) (December),  forecast  0.9%,  previous value  1.0%.

At 01:50 – release statistics for Japan:
– Industrial Production (m/m) (November), forecast -1.7%,  previous value  2.9%.
– Retail sales (y/y) (November), forecast 2.2%,  previous value 3.5%.

At 02:30 – private sector lending (m/m) (November) Australia,  previous value 0.4%.

At 10:00 –  KOF leading economic indicators of Switzerland from (December) will be released,  forecast 98.7,  previous value 99.1.

At 11:30 – gross mortgage approvals in the UK will be released,  forecast 38.9K,  previous value  39.7K.

At 15:00 – German consumer price index (CPI)  (m/m) (December) will be announced,  forecast 0.3%, previous value  0.1%.

At 15:30 – goods trade balance  (November),  forecast  -75.50B,  previous value  -76.98B.

At 16:45 – PMI will be published in Chicago (December), the United States, forecast 62.0, previous value  66.4.

At 17:00 –  a report on real estate in the United States will be releases:
– New home sales  (m/m) (November), the forecast of 2.9%,  previous value  -8.9%.
– Pending home sales  (m/m) (November), forecast 0.7%, previous value  -2.6%.

At 18:00 – data on US oil reserves will be released:
– Crude oil inventories, forecast -2.667M, the previous value of -0.497M.
– Cushing (Oklahoma) Crude oil inventories,  previous value 1,091M.

At 20:00 – the number of Baker Hughes oil rigs in the USA will be announced, previous value  883.

Hanzenko Anton