DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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04-Dec 0700/0200 Germany Oct retail sales data released.
04-Dec 0800/0300 Italy Nov New Car Registrations data released.
04-Dec 0845/0345 Italy Nov Services PMI data released.
04-Dec 0850/0350 France Nov CDAF- services PMI data.
04-Dec 0850/0350 Germany Nov Unemployment data released.
04-Dec 0855/0355 Germany Dec BME/ Svcs PMI data released.
04-Dec 0900/0400 EMU Nov Services PMI data released.
04-Dec 0930/0430 UK Nov Official reserves data released.
04-Dec 0930/0430 UK Nov PMI services date released.
04-Dec 1100/0600 EMU 3Q-02 GDP indicator data released.
04-Dec 1100/0600 EMU 3Q-02 GDP data (1st reading) released.
04-Dec 1100/0600 UK Nov CBI distributive trades survey.
04-Dec n/a UK BOE begins Monetary Policy Committee meeting. Rate decision 05-Dec.
04-Dec 1200/0700 Sweden's Riksbank holds monetary policy meeting in Stockholm. Rate decision December 5.
04-Dec 1200/0700 U.S. MBA applications survey for Nov. 29 week.
04-Dec 1330/0830 U.S. revised third-quarter 2002 non-farm productivity and unit labor costs.
04-Dec 1330/0830 Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Federal Finance Timothy Bitsberger to speak at confer- ence in Palm Beach, Florida.
04-Dec n/a ABC/Money Magazine weekly survey of U.S. con- sumer confidence.
04-Dec 1500/1000 U.S. Institute for Supply Management non-manu- facturing index for November and factory orders for October.
04-Dec n/a U.S. Fannie Mae to sell $4 to $8 billion in 3-month bills and $1.5 to $4 billion in 6-month bills.
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05-Dec 2350/1850* Japan capital flows for Nov. 29 week.
05-Dec 0001/1901* U.K. Oct Housing starts data released.
05-Dec 0800/0300 Spain Oct Industrial Production data released.
05-Dec 0830/0330 Sweden's Riksbank announces rate decision and releases inflation report.
05-Dec 1100/0600 U.K. Nov BRC shop prices.
05-Dec 1100/0600 Germany Oct Mfg orders data released (time tentative.)
05-Dec 1200/0700 Bank of England MPC interest rate decision.
05-Dec 1245/0745 European Central Bank announces rate decision following its Governing Council meeting. Press conference by President Wim Duisenberg to follow at 1330 GMT (0830 EDT).
05-Dec 1330/0830 U.S. jobless claims for week ended Nov. 30.
05-Dec 1330/0830 Canada building permits for October and help- wanted index for November.
05-Dec n/a U.S. same store sales for November.
05-Dec n/a Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Federal Finance Timothy Bitsberger to speak at confer- ence in Palm Beach, Florida.
05-Dec 1430/0930 ECB Governing Council member Ernst Welteke speaks at Bundesbank conference, Frankfurt. ECB Chief Economist Otmar Issing in discussion at 1500 GMT. ECB Council member Nout Wellink and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William Poole speak at 1645 GMT. German Finance Minister Hans Eichel to speak at 1900 GMT.
05-Dec 1430/0930 IMF External Relations Director Thomas Dawson to hold regular briefing in Washington.
05-Dec 1440/0940 Deadline for tenders on $7 billion in U.S. Freddie Mac 5-year Reference Notes.
05-Dec n/a President Bush to host Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at the White House.
05-Dec 1645/1145 St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole to speak on a panel at a Bundes- bank conference in Frankfurt, Germany. No media Q&A.
05-Dec 1900/1400 Annual U.S. industrial production revisions to be released.
05-Dec 2000/1500 U.S. Treasury strips for November.
05-Dec 2130/1630 U.S. M2 money supply for Nov. 25 week.
05-Dec 2145/1645 Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs John Taylor to give keynote address at the Trade Association for the Emerging Markets annual meeting in New York.