ECONOMIC STATISTICS THE WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY

US:Budget balance (January)

Italy: M2 money supply (January), current account (January)

Japan: Crude oil imports (January)

Germany: Producer prices index (January)

TUESDAY

US: Consumer confidence (February)

France: Consumer price index (January), trade balance (December)

Germany: Import prices (January), Hesse consumer price index (February), Baden-Wuerttemberg consumer price index (February), Bavaria consumer price index (February), North-Rhine Westphalia consumer price index

Sweden: Trade balance (January)

WEDNESDAY

US: Humphrey-Hawkins testimony by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan

UK: Trade balance - non EU (January), visible trade balance (December)

France: Household consumption (January)

THURSDAY

US: Durable goods orders (January)

Japan: Large scale retail sales (January), industrial production (January), Tokyo consumer price index (February)

Germany: Tietmeyer speaks on monetary stability in the Monetary Union

France: 4th-quarter GDP

UK: Wirral South by-election

FRIDAY

US: 4th-quarter provisional GDP

France: Unemployment rate (January)

Italy: 4th-quarter GDP Copyright: IOS & Bloomberg