The main events of Thursday!

On Thursday, November 15, market attention will be focused on employment data in Australia, UK retail sales and US statistics. Also on this day will be speeches of the world central banks’ representatives .

At 01:00 – the speech of the Fed Chairman Mr. Powell will take place.

At 02:30 – employment report in Australia:
– Employment change (Oct),  forecast of 20.0K,  previous value  5.6K.
– Full employment change (Oct),  previous value 20.3K.
– Unemployment rate (Oct),  forecast  5.1%,  previous value  5.0%.

At 03:30 – the speech of the RBA Assistant Governor Debelle will take place.

At 11:30 –  the UK retail sales data:
– Core retail sales index (y/y) (oct),  forecast  3.3%,  previous value  3.2%.
– Core retail sales index (m/m) (October),  forecast  0.2%, previous value  -0.8%.
– Retail sales (y/y) (oct), forecast 3.0%, previous 3.0%.
– Retail sales (m/m) (October), forecast 0.2%,  previous value  -0.8%.

At 12:00 – trade balance (September) of the eurozone,  previous value  11.7B.

At 15:30 – a block of news about the USA:
– Core Retail Sales Index (m/m) (Oct), forecast 0.5%, previous value -0.1%.
– Export Price Index (m/m) (Oct), forecast 0.1%, previous value -0.2%.
– Import price index (m/m) (October), forecast 0.1%, previous value 0.5%.
– Initial jobless claims,  forecast 212K, previous value  214K.
– NY Empire State manufacturing index (November), forecast 20.00,  previous value 21.10.
– Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index (November), forecast 20.0,  previous value  22.2.
– Philadelphia Fed Employment (November),  previous value 19.5.
– Retail sales (m/m) (oct), forecast 0.5%, previous value 0.1%.

At 17:00 – business inventories (m/m) (September) in the US, forecast  0.3%,  previous value  0.5%.

At 18:00 –  data on oil inventories in the United States:
– Crude oil inventories, forecast 3,012M,  previous value  5,783M.
– Cushing (Oklahoma) crude oil inventories,  previous value  2.419M.

At 18:30 – the speech of the Fed Chairman Mr. Powell.

At 23:30 – PMI in the manufacturing sector PMI (October) of New Zealand,  previous value  51.7.

Hanzenko Anton