Date /Time(GMT/EDT)/Event 16-18-Jul n/a Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Under Sec- retary for International Affairs John Taylor to visit Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Georgia.
16-Jul n/a Bank of Japan Policy Board meets.
16-Jul 0700/0300 Italy final CPI and HICP for June.
16-Jul 0830/0430 U.K. RPI, RPIX, RPIY for June.
16-Jul 1145/0745 U.S. BTM-UBSW store sales for week of July 13.
16-Jul 1200/0800 U.S. NY Fed manufacturing survey for July.
16-Jul 1300/0900 Bank of Canada rate announcement.
16-Jul 1300/0900 U.S. Redbook for week of July 13.
16-Jul 1315/0915 U.S. industrial production & capacity utiliza- tion for June.
16-Jul 1340/0940 Deadline for weekly tenders on $3 billion in U.S. Freddie Mac 3-month Reference Bills and $4 billion in 12-month bills.
16-Jul 1400/1000 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to testify on monetary policy before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington.
16-Jul 1400/1000 Treasury Deputy Secretary Kenneth Dam to tes- tify about homeland defense before the Senate Finance Committee, in Washington.
16-Jul 1430/1030 Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels to testify before the House Budget Committee, in Washington.
16-Jul 1700/1300 Deadline for weekly tenders on $20 billion in U.S. Treasury 4-week bills.
16-Jul 1700/1300 U.S. NAHB housing market index for July.
16-Jul 1745/1345 Former IMF chief economist Michael Mussa to discuss his new study, "Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy" at the Institute for International Economics, in Washington.
16-Jul 1800/1400 House Financial Services Committee to hold hearing on government sponsored enterprises. Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Peter Fisher to testify, in Washington.
16-Jul 2100/1700 U.S. API crude oil stocks for week of July 12.
----- 17-Jul 0500/0100 Japan revised leading indicators and diffusion index for May and Bank of Japan monthly report.
17-Jul 0830/0430 Bank of England to release minutes of its July 3-4 Monetary Policy Committee meeting; U.K. claimant unemployment for June, headline avg earnings and unit wage costs for May.
17-Jul 1000/0600 Eurozone industrial production for May & final HICP for June.
17-Jul n/a U.S. Fannie Mae to sell $4 to $8 billion in 3-month bills, $1.5 to $4 billion in 6-month bills and $1.5 to $4 billion in 12-month bills.
17-Jul 1230/0830 U.S. housing starts and building permits for June.
17-Jul 1230/0830 Canada manufacturing shipments, inventories, unfilled orders and new orders for May.
17-Jul n/a ABC/Money Magazine survey of U.S. consumer confidence.
17-18-Jul n/a State visit by Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski.
17-Jul 1400/1000 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to testify on monetary policy before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington.
17-Jul 1400/1000 Council of Economic Advisers Chairman R. Glenn Hubbard to address the U.S. economic outlook before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress in Washington.
17-Jul 1400/1000 American Petroleum Institute to hold its semi- annual news briefing, in Washington.
17-Jul 1630/1230 Congressional Budget Office Director Dan Crippen speaks to a National Economists Club luncheon on dynamic budget scoring.
17-Jul 1715/1315 Federal Reserve Governor Susan Schmidt Bies to speak about corporate governance at a luncheon in Washington. Audience Q&A expected.
17-Jul 2330/1930 U.K. RICS housing survey for June.