DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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24-Feb 0700/0200 Germany Jan Producer prices data released.
24-Feb 0900/0400 EMU Dec current account data relea)sed.
24-Feb 1300/0800 ECB Governing Council member Tommaso Padoa- Schioppa speaks in Frankfurt. BBK Edgar Meister also to speak on "EU banking sector stability."
24-Feb 1330/0830 C)anada international securities transactions for December.
24-Feb 1400/0900 Belgian National Bank to release February survey of business confidence.
24-Feb 1440/0940 Deadline for we)ekly tenders on $1 billion in U.S. Freddie Mac 1-month Reference Bills and $2 billion in 2-month bills.
24-Feb 1500/1000 U.S. retail E-commerce sales for the fourth qu)arter of 2002.
24-Feb 1500/1000 American Enterprise Institute holds seminar on "Is the Fed Biased Toward Inflation or Deflation?" in Washington.
24-Feb 1515/1015 Treasury Secretary )John Snow to speak at the Credit Union National Association governmental affairs conference in Washington.
24-Feb 1530/1030 ECB Governing Council member Ernst Welteke ) speaks in Frankfurt.
24-Feb 1800/1300 Deadline for weekly tenders on $18 billion in U.S. Treasury 3-month bills and $17 billion in 6-month bills.
24-Feb 1900/1400 U.S. Treasury Stat)ement for January.
24-Feb 2000/1500 German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, French President Jacques Chirac, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and French Foreign ) Minister Dominique de Villepin hold press conference after meeting in Berlin.
24-Feb 2030/1530 Mexico 1st half February CPI.
24-Feb n/a Mexico preliminary trade deficit for January.
24-Feb 0000/)1900 Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Anthony Santomero to speak about corporate governance at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. Audience Q&A expect)ed.
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25-Feb 0700/0200 Germany Jan Import prices data released.
25-Feb 0745/0245 France Jan Housing data released.
25-Feb 0745/0245 France Jan Cons spendg mfg gds data released.
25-Feb 0750/0250 France Jan f)inal consumer price data released.
25-Feb 0800/0300 Spain Jan Producer Prices data released.
25-Feb 0830/0330 Italy Feb ISAE SA Business Confid Index release
25-Feb 0900/0400 Ifo Feb. index for west German business ) sentiment to be released.
25-Feb 0930/0430 U.K. Q4 Business investment data released.
25-Feb 0930/0430 U.K. Jan Car production data released.
25-Feb 1245/0745 U.S. BTM-UBSW store sales for Feb. 22 week.
) 25-Feb 1330/0830 Canada industrial product and raw materials prices for January.
25-Feb 1355/0855 U.S. Redbook average for Feb. 22 week.
25-Feb 1440/0940 Deadline for weekly tenders on $3 billion in) U.S. Freddie Mac 3-month Reference Bills and $3 billion in 12-month bills.
25-Feb 1500/1000 U.S. Conference Board consumer confidence for February and existing home )sales for January.
25-Feb 1600/1100 Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Peter Fisher to speak about the outlook for U.S. bonds for 2003 at Bloomberg headquarters ) in New York.
25-Feb 1800/1300 Deadline for weekly tenders on U.S. Treasury 4-week bills.
25-Feb 2000/1500 Treasury Secretary John Snow to speak at a law enforcement day event in) Washington.
25-Feb 2030/1530 Mexico retail and wholesale sales for December.