The main events of Wednesday!

On Wednesday, August 22, the day is full of news thanks to the publication of retail sales data in New Zealand and Canada and US real estate data. The main focus of the market will be on the FOMC protocol.

At 01:45 –  data on retail sales in New Zealand:
– Core retail sales index (q/q), forecast 0.8%, previous value 0.6%.
– Retail sales (q/q) (Q2), forecast 0.4%,  previous value of 0.1%.

At 04:30 – construction work done (q/q) (Q2) in Australia, forecast 0.7%,  previous value  0.2%.

At 06:10 – RBA Assistant Governor Debell speech .

At 15:30 –  data on retail sales in Canada:
– Core retail sales index (m / m) (June), forecast -0.1%, previous value 1.4%.
– Retail sales (m / m) (June), forecast 0.1%, previous value 2.0%.

At 17:00 –  statistics on real estate sales in the US:
– Existing home sales  (m / m) (July), forecast 0.6%,  previous value  -0.6%.
– Existing home sales (July), forecast 5.44M, previous value  5.38M.

At 17:30 – data on oil inventories in the US:
– Crude oil inventories, forecast -1.533M,  previous value 6.805M.
– Cushing, Oklahoma crude oil inventories , previous value 1.643M.

At 21:00 –  FOMC meeting minutes .

Hanzenko Anton