The main events Thursday!

On Thursday, December 20, data on employment in Australia will be released, the results of the meetings of the Central Bank of Japan and the UK will be published.

At 02:30 – an employment report in Australia will be published :
– Employment change  (November),  forecast  20.0K,  previous value  32.8K.
– Full employment change (November),  previous value  42.3K.
– Unemployment rate (November), forecast 5.0%,  previous value  5.0%.

At 08:30 – a press conference of the Bank of Japan will be held.

At 11:30 – data on sales in the UK:
– Core retail sales  (y/y) (November),  forecast  2.3%, the previous value  2.7%.
– Core retail sales (m/m) (November), forecast  0.2%, the previous value -0.4%.
– Retail sales (y/y) (November),  forecast 1.9%,  previous value  2.2%.
– Retail sales (m/m) (November), forecast 0.3%,  previous value -0.5%.

At 14:00 – publish the results of the meeting of the Bank of England:
– Bank of England total amount of the QE  program (December), forecast 435B,  previous value  435B.
– Interest rate decision   (December), forecast  0.75%,  previous value 0.75%.

At 15:30 – US data will be released:
– Initial jobless claims ,  forecast 216K,  previous value 206K.
– Philadelphia Fed manufacturing  index (December),  forecast  15.6,  previous value  12.9.
– Philadelphia Fed employment index  (December), the previous value of 16.3.

Also at 15:30 –  wholesale sales (m/m) (October) in Canada, forecast 0.2%, previous value -0.5%.

Hanzenko Anton