DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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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 1530/1030 Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Peter Fisher to hold news conference about the U.S. Postal Service, in Washington.
11-Dec n/a U.S. Fannie Mae to $4 to $8 billion in 3-month bills and $1.5 to $4 billion in 6-month bills.
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.
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12-Dec 2350/1850* Japan current account balance for October and capital flows for Dec. 6 week.
12-Dec 0700/0200 EMU Nov W Europe new car registration data released.
12-Dec 0745/0245 France Q3 Payrolls data released.
12-Dec 0750/0250 France Oct Mfg production data released.
12-Dec 0900/0400 ECB monthly report for December released. Includes new staff economic forecasts.
12-Dec 0930/0430 U.K. Oct contruction orders data released.
12-Dec 1100/0600 EMU Q3 Construction Production data released.
12-Dec n/a U.S. Farm Credit banks to sell 1-year notes.
12-Dec 1330/0830 U.S. jobless claims for Dec. 7 week and import and export price index for November; retail and food sales for November and third-quarter 2002 current account balance.
12-Dec 1330/0830 Canada new motor vehicle sales for October.
12-Dec 1330/0830 Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets Brian Roseboro to speak at the Bond Market Association's Repo and Securities Len- ding Conference in New York.
12-Dec 1400/0900 Brazilian Central Bank President Arminio Fraga to speak at the Bretton Woods Committee sympos- ium in Washington.
12-Dec 1700/1200 International Monetary Fund to release quarter- ly Global Financial Stability Report. News con- ference in New York.
12-Dec 1830/1330 Swiss National Bank board member Niklaus Blattner to speak in Basel.
12-Dec 1900/1400 Federal Reserve to release minutes from Nov. 6 Open Market Committee meeting in Washington.
12-Dec n/a Mexico industrial and manufacturing production for October.
12-Dec 2130/1630 U.S. M2 money supply for Dec. 2 week.