DATE GMT/EDT EVENT

17-Jul 0500/0100 Japan revised leading indicators and diffusion index for May and Bank of Japan monthly report.
17-18-Jul n/a Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Under Sec- retary for International Affairs John Taylor to visit Uzbekistan and Georgia.
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-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 1400/1000 State visit by Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski; meets President Bush at the White House.
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.
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18-Jul 2350/1950* Japan capital flows data for week of July 12.
18-Jul 0645/0245 France current account for May.
18-Jul n/a European Central Bank's Governing Council meets. No policy announcement expected.
18-Jul 0830/0430 U.K. PSNCR, BBA & BSA mortgage lending, CML mortgage lending survey, provisional M4 for June and machine tool orders for May.
18-Jul 0900/0500 ISAE president Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa presents her institute's new forecasts on the Italian economy.
18-Jul 1000/0600 U.K. BCC quarterly survey for the second quar- ter of 2002.
18-Jul 1230/0830 U.S. jobless claims for the week ended July 13.
18-Jul 1330/0930 IMF External Relations Director Thomas Dawson to hold regular press briefing in Washington.
18-Jul 1400/1000 U.S. leading indicators for June.
18-Jul n/a U.S. Fannie Mae to sell $5 billion in 5-year notes and $300 million in 30-year bonds.
18-Jul 1500/1100 Mexico Conf. Board leading indicators for May.
18-Jul n/a Mexico open unemployment for June.
18-Jul 1600/1200 U.S. Philadelphia Fed survey for July.
18-Jul 1630/1230 ECB Exec. Board member Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa to speak in Milan.
18-Jul 2030/1630 U.S. M2 money supply for July 8 week.