DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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10-Dec 0700/0200 Germany Nov Final CPI data released.
10-Dec 0800/0300 Italy 3Q02 final GDP data released.
10-Dec 0930/0430 U.K. Oct trade data released.
10-Dec 1245/0745 U.S. BTM-UBSW store sales for Dec. 7 week.
10-Dec 1355/0855 U.S. Redbook for Dec. 7 week.
10-Dec 1400/0900 EMU/Germany Dec ZEW survey data released.
10-Dec 1400/0900 Federal Open Market Committee meets in Washing- ton to decide key interest rates. Announcement expected around 2:15 p.m. EST.
10-Dec 1400/0900 IMF First Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger to speak about sovereign debt restructuring in Brussels.
10-Dec n/a Institute for Supply Management annual economic summit in New York.
10-Dec 1440/0940 Deadline for weekly tenders on $4.5 billion in U.S. Freddie Mac 3-month Reference Bills.
10-Dec 1450/0950 President Bush to welcome Brazilian President- elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the White House for bilateral talks. Lula speaks at the National Press Club, in Washington, at 12:30 pm
10-Dec 1500/1000 U.S. wholesale inventories for October and Richmond Fed shipments for November.
10-Dec n/a White House may name successor to Lawrence Lindsey as chief economic adviser.
10-Dec n/a Institute for Supply Management annual economic summit in New York.
10-Dec 1545/1045 Treasury Assistant Secretary Randal Quarles to appear on panel about U.S.-EU relations in Washington.
10-Dec 1610/1110 Bank of England Governor Eddie George, Deputy Governors Mervyn King and Andrew Large and Marian Bell to testify to House of Lords Economics Affairs Select Committee.
10-Dec 1630/1130 BOE MPC member Stephen Nickell to speak at Merrill Lynch in London.
10-Dec 1800/1300 Council of Economic Advisers Chairman R. Glenn Hubbard to give keynote address at a taxation conference in Washington.
10-Dec 1800/1300 Deadline for weekly tenders on $16 billion in U.S. Treasury 4-week bills.
10-Dec 2200/1700 U.S. API crude oil stocks for Dec. 6 week.
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11-Dec 0700/0200 Germany Oct Foreign trade data released.
11-Dec n/a Germany to sell E9 billion 2-year Schatze debt maturing Dec. 2004.
11-Dec 0745/0245 France Nov preliminary HICP, CPI released.
11-Dec 0800/0300 Italy Oct Trade Balance data released.
11-Dec 0800/0300 Spain Oct Retail Sales data released.
11-Dec 0830/0330 Italy ISAE Oct mfg investment survey released.
11-Dec 0900/0400 International Energy Agency publishes its monthly Oil Market Report.
11-Dec 0930/0430 IMF First Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger to speak at a conference in Rome.
11-Dec 1200/0700 U.S. MBA applications survey for Dec. 6 week.
11-Dec 1300/0800 Norway's Norges Bank makes interest rate announcement following monetary policy meeting.
11-Dec 1330/0830 Canada third-quarter 2002 capacity utilization.
11-Dec 1400/0900 Germany's Verdi public sector union to hold press conference on sector round of wage talks.
11-Dec n/a ABC/Money Magazine weekly survey of U.S. con- sumer confidence.
11-Dec 1800/1300 World Bank to release report on Global Economic Prospects for 2003, in Washington.
11-Dec 1930/1430 BOE MPC member Stephen Nickell to speak in Glasgow.
11-Dec n/a EU finance ministers (Ecofin) to hold special meeting in Brussels on savings tax.