DATE GMT/EDT EVENT
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02-Oct 0600/0200 German Aug-02 Ret sales ex-auto/gas (y/y)
02-Oct n/a BBK total retail sales y/y, ex-auto/gas y/y
02-04-Oct n/a Germany ICON consumer confidence for August.
02-Oct n/a Germany to sell around E5 billion in 2-year Schatze due Sept. 2004.
02-Oct n/a The Netherlands to sell DSL debt.
02-Oct 1000/0600 A&S-02 EMU Economic Sentiment, Cons and Ind confidence indexes; Eurozone industrial PPI m/m,y/y; Eurozone Aug Unemp Rate; A&S-02 EMU Bus Climate Indicator
02-Oct 1000/0600 UK Sep-02 CBI Distributive Trades Survey, reported sales balance
02-Oct 1100/0700 US 27-Sep MBA Applications Survey ---
02-Oct 1145/0745 US Chain store sales, BTM-Mitsubishi, latest wk
02-Oct 1230/0830 Canada Sep-02 Help-wanted index
02-Oct 1200/0855 US Chain store sales.
02-Oct n/a ABC/Money Magazine weekly survey of consumer confidence.
02-Oct 1430/1030 World Leadership Forum panel on eastern Europe with Hungarian Finance Minister Laszlo Csaba, Polish Finance Minister Grzegorz Kolodko and Czech Finance Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and others, in New York.
02-Oct 1630/1230 Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Jack Guynn to address the Columbus, Georgia Rotary Club on the outlook for the U.S. economy, in Columbus, Georgia.
02-Oct 1645/1245 Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Alfred Broaddus to speak about the economy before financial analysts in Baltimore, Maryland.
02-Oct 1800/1400 Brazilian Finance Minister Pedro Malan and Mex- ican Finance Minister Francisco Gil Diaz to appear on panel on economic integration in the Americas, at the World Leadership Forum in New York.
02-Oct n/a Mexico Jul-02 Leading Indicators
02-Oct 2010/1610 San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Parry to speak about the economic out- look, in San Francisco. Q&A expected.
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03-Oct 2350/1950* Japan capital flow data for Sept. 27 week.
03-Oct 0700/0300 Italy new car registrations for September.
03-Oct 0830/0430 U.K. PMI services and offl reserves for Sept.
03-Oct 1230/0830 U.S. jobless claims for Sept. 28 week.
03-Oct 1400/1000 U.S. ISM non-manufacturing index for Sept. and factory orders for August.
03-Oct 1400/1000 Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson to speak at a securities industry conference in Geneva, Switzerland. No Q&A expected.
03-Oct 1400/1000 Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill takes part in financial education roundtable in Washington.
03-Oct 1530/1130 Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Michael Moskow to speak about Mexico and the U.S. at Wayne State Univ. in Detroit, Michigan.
03-Oct 1630/1230 Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Alfred Broaddus to discuss the U.S. economy, in Wil- mington, North Carolina.
03-Oct 1630/1230 Former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer to address the National Economists Club in Washington on "What I Learned at the Fed."
03-Oct 1900/1500 Chinese central bank governor Dai Xianglong and Australia Treasurer Peter Costello to appear on panel discussing Asian integration at the World Leadership Forum in New York.
03-Oct n/a ECB Governing Council member Ernst Welteke to speak at the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles.
03-Oct 2030/1630 U.S. M2 money supply for Sept. 24 week.