The main events of Friday!

On Friday, February 15, end of the week will be full of news thanks to an inflation data in China and retail sales in the UK and the USA.

At 03:30 – an inflation report in China will be released:
– Consumer price index (CPI) (y/y) (January), forecast  1.9%,  previous value  1.9%.
– Consumer price index (CPI) (m/m) (January), forecast 0.5%, previous value 0.0%.
– Producer Price Index (y/y) (Jan), forecast 0.2%, previous value 0.9%.

At 06:30 – industrial production (m/m) (December) of Japan will be announced, forecast  -0.1%, previous value  -0.1%.

At 11:30 – data on retail sales in the UK:
– Core retail sales index (m/m) (January),  forecast  0.2%,  previous value  -1.3%.
– Core retail sales index (y/y) (Jan), forecast 3.0%, previous value  2.6%.
– Retail sales (y/y) (Jan), forecast 3.4%, previous 3.0%.
– Retail sales (m/m) (January), forecast  0.2%, previous value  -0.9%.

At 12:00 – trade balance (December) of the eurozone will be released,  previous value 19.0B.

At 15:30 –  retail data sales in the United States will be published:
– Core retail sales index (m/m) (December), the forecast of 0.1%,  previous value 0.2%.
– Export price index (m/m) (January), forecast -0.1%, previous value -0.6%.
– Import price index (m/m) (Jan), forecast -0.1%,  previous value -1.0%.
– Index of manufacturing activity of the NY Empire State (Feb), forecast 7.00,  previous value 3.90.
– Retail sales (m/m) (December), forecast 0.2%, previous value 0.2%.

Also at 15:30 – foreign investment in Canadian securities (December) will be released,  previous value  9.45B.

At 16:15 – industrial production (m/m) (January) in the United States will be announced, forecast 0.1%, previous value 0.3%

At 20:00 – number of Baker Hughes oil rigs in the USA will be published, previous value 854.

Hanzenko Anton