The main events of Thursday!
On Thursday, August 16, market attention will be focused on Japan’s trade balance, employment in Australia, retail sales in the UK and real estate in the US.
At 02:50 – trade balance of Japan:
– Trade balance with seasonal fluctuations, forecast 0,02T, previous value 0,07T.
– The volume of exports (y / y) (July), forecast 6.3%, previous value 6.7%.
– Trade balance (July), forecast -50B, previous value 721B.
At 04:30 – employment data in Australia:
– Employment change (July), forecast 15.3K, previous value 50.9K.
– Full employment change (July), previous value 41,2K.
– Unemployment rate (July), forecast 5.4%, previous value 5.4%.
At 11:30 – data on retail sales in the UK:
– Core retail sales index (y / y) (July), forecast 2.8%, previous value 3.0%.
– Core retail sales index (m / m) (July), forecast 0.1%, previous value -0.6%.
– Retail sales (y / y) (July), forecast 3.0%, previous value 2.9%.
– Retail sales (m / m) (July), forecast of 0.2%, previous value -0.5%.
At 12:00 – trade balance (June) of the eurozone, forecast 18.0B, previous value 16.5B.
At 15:30 – construction report in the US:
– Building permits (July), forecast 1.310M, previous value 1.229M.
– Building permits (m / m) (July), forecast 1.4%, previous value -0.7%.
– Housing starts (m / m) (July), forecast 7.4%, the previous value -12.3%.
– Housing starts (July), forecast 1.270M, previous value 1,173M.
– Initial jobless claims, forecast 215K, previous value 213K.
– Fed Philadelphia Index of manufacturing activity (Aug), forecast 22.0, previous value 25.7.
– Fed Philadelphia employment index (Aug), previous value 16.8.
Also at 15:30 – volume of sales in the manufacturing sector (m / m) (June) in Canada, forecast 0.9%, previous value 1.4%.
Hanzenko Anton