The main events of Thursday!

On Thursday, March 21, the market’s attention will be focused on the UK data.

At 02:30 – an employment report in Australia will be published :
– Employment change (Feb), forecast 14.0K,  previous value  39.1K.
– Full employment change (Feb),  previous value  65.4K.
– Unemployment rate (Feb), forecast  5.0%, previous value  5.0%.

At 10:30 – the Swiss National Bank meeting  results will be announced:
– SNB Interest rate decision,  forecast -0.75%,  previous value  -0.75%.
– SNB Monetary policy assessment.

At 11:00 – the press conference of the Swiss National Bank will be held.

Also at 11:00 – the ECB monthly report will be published.

At 11:30 – data on retail sales in the UK:
– Core retail sales index (m/m) (Feb),  forecast is -0.4%,  previous value 1.2%.
– Core retail sales index (y/y) (Feb),  forecast of 3.3%, previous value  4.1%.
– Retail sales (y/y) (Feb), forecast 3.3%, previous 4.2%.
– Retail sales (m/m) (Feb), forecast -0.4%,  previous value 1.0%.

At 14:00 – the Bank of England meeting  results will be announced:
– Total amount of the program QE Bank of England (Mar), forecast 435B,  previous valuef 435B.
– Interest rate decision (Mar), the forecast of 0.75%,  previous value  0.75%.

At 14:30 – data on the United States:
– Current account balance (Q4), forecast -124.3B, previous value -124.8B.
– Initial jobless claims, forecast 226K, previous value  229K.
– The index of production activity from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (Mar), forecast 4.5, previous value  -4.1.
– Philadelphia Fed Employment Index   (Mar), previous value  14.5.

Also at 14:30 –  wholesale sales (m/m) (January) in Canada will be announced, forecast  0.5%,  previous value  0.3%.

Hanzenko Anton