DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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26-Feb 0700/0200 Germany 4Q GDP data released.
26-Feb 0800/0300 Italy Dec Nominal Retail Sales data released.
F 26-Feb 0800/0300 Spain 4Q GDP data released.
26-Feb 0930/0430 UK Q4 GDP data (1st revision) released.
26-Feb 0930/0430 Germany Final Jan CPI data released during press conference.
26-Feb 1330F/0830 Canada Dec-02 Average hourly earnings; Dec payroll employment.
26-Feb 1430/0930 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance F Peter Fisher to testify before the Senate Bank- ing Committee on federal deposit insurance oversight, in Washington.
26-Feb n/a ABC/Money Magazine weekly survey of U.S. cFonsu- mer sentiment.
26-Feb n/a President Bush to host Azerbaijan President Heydar Aliyev at the White House.
26-Feb 1800/1300 Deadline for tenders of US 2-Yr notes
26-Feb F 1700/1200 Institute for International Economics to hold conference on dollar overvaluation and the world economy, in Washington.
26-Feb n/a Mexico Dec-02 Manufacturing employmentF, manhrs.
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27-Feb 0745/0245 France Jan PPI data released.
27-Feb 0750/0250 France Feb Mfg sentiment data released.
27-Feb 0800/0300 Italy Jan Non-EU Trade Balance date released.
27-Feb 0830/0330 Italy Feb FISAE SA services confidence survey released.
27-Feb 0900/0400 EMU Jan M3 data released from ECB.
27-Feb 0900/0400 ECB Executive Board member Tommaso Padoa- Schioppa speaks at UniverFsity of Bergamo, Italy.
27-Feb 1030/0530 UK Feb GfK consumer confidence data released.
27-Feb 1200/0700 Canada Jan-03 CPI
27-Feb 1230/0730 US Jan-03 Building Permits Revision
27-Feb 1330/08F30 US 22-Feb Jobless Claims and Jan-03 Durable Goods Orders
27-Feb 1500/1000 Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson to testify on the Basel Capital Accord to the F House Financial Services Committee, in Washing- ton.
27-Feb 1500/1000 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to testify on the threat of aging to the U.S. eFconomy before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, in Washington.
27-Feb 1500/1000 US Jan-03 New Home Sales and Help-wanted Index
27-Feb n/a President Bush to host Afghanistan President F Hamid Karzai at the White House.
27-Feb 1600/1100 ECB Chief Economist Otmar Issing speaks on the euro in Budapest, Hungary.
27-Feb 1800/1200 ECB President Wim Duisenberg speaks in KFiel, Germany.
27-Feb 1730/1230 Federal Reserve Governor Susan Bies to address the National Economists Club in Washington.
27-Feb n/a Mexico Dec-02 Maquiladora employment, manhFours.
27-Feb 2130/1630 US 17-Feb Money Supply (M2)