DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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27-Feb 0745/0245 France Jan PPI data released.
27-Feb 0750/0250 France Feb Mfg sentiment data released.
27-F\Geb 0800/0300 Italy Jan Non-EU Trade Balance date released.
27-Feb 0830/0330 Italy Feb ISAE SA services confidence survey released.
27-Feb 0900/0400 EMU Jan M3 data released from ECB.
27-Feb 090\G0/0400 ECB Executive Board member Tommaso Padoa- Schioppa speaks at University of Bergamo, Italy.
27-Feb 1030/0530 UK Feb GfK consumer confidence data released.
27-Feb 1200/0700 \G Canada Jan-03 CPI
27-Feb 1230/0730 US Jan-03 Building Permits Revision
27-Feb 1330/0830 US 22-Feb Jobless Claims and Jan-03 Durable Goods Orders
27-Feb 1500/1000 Federal Reserve Vice Chairman R\Goger Ferguson to testify on the Basel Capital Accord to the House Financial Services Committee, in Washing- ton.
27-Feb 1500/1000 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greens\Gpan to testify on the threat of aging to the U.S. economy before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, in Washington.
27-Feb 1500/1000 US Jan-03 New Home Sales and \GHelp-wanted Index
27-Feb n/a President Bush to host Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the White House.
27-Feb 1600/1100 ECB Chief Economist Otmar Issing speaks on the \G euro in Budapest, Hungary.
27-Feb 1800/1200 ECB President Wim Duisenberg speaks in Kiel, Germany.
27-Feb 1730/1230 Federal Reserve Governor Susan Bies to address the Natio\Gnal Economists Club in Washington.
27-Feb n/a Mexico Dec-02 Maquiladora employment, manhours.
27-Feb 2130/1630 US 17-Feb Money Supply (M2)
27-Feb 2330/1830 Japan Jan-03 CPI and Feb-03 Tokyo CPI
27-Feb 2330/1830 \G Japan Jan-03 unemployment, household spending
--- 28-Feb 0500/0000 Japan Jan-03 Housing Starts (m/m)
28-Feb 0700/0200 Germany Jan Wholesale Sales data released.
28-Feb 0745/0245 France Jan ILO jobless rate released.\G
28-Feb 0800/0300 Italy 4Q Prelim GDP and full year 2002 data.
28-Feb 0830/0330 ECB Chief Economist Otmar Issing makes keynote address on "Considerations on monetary policy strateg\Gies for Accession Countries" at National Bank of Hungary, Budapest.
28-Feb 0930/0430 ECB Executive Board member Tommaso Padoa- Schioppa speaks in Rome.
28-\GFeb 1100/0600 EMU Jan Final HICP data released.
28-Feb 1100/0600 EMU Feb EMU Economic Sentiment Index data and business climate indicator released.
28-Feb 1100/0600 EMU Feb Flash HICP data released.
\G 28-Feb NA ECB Governing Council member Ernst Welteke speaks in Bombay, India.
28-Feb 1230/0830 US preliminary 4Q-02 Gross Domestic Product
28-Feb 1230/0830 Canada Dec-02 and 4Q-02 real GDP\G
28-Feb 1445/0945 US final Feb-03 Consumer Sentiment (UoM)
28-Feb 1500/1000 US Feb-03 Chicago purchasing managers index.
28-Feb 1530/1030 US 21-Feb ECRI Leading Index.
28-Feb 2000/1500 US Feb-03 Agriculture Pric\Ges
28-Feb n/a St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole to address the Missouri Valley Economic Association, in St. Louis, Missouri.