DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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28-Feb 0500/0000 Japan Jan-03 Housing Starts (m/m)
28-Feb 0700/0200 Germany Jan Wholesale Sales data released.
F 28-Feb 0745/0245 France Jan ILO jobless rate released.
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 "Con Fsiderations on monetary policy strategies for Accession Countries" at National Bank of Hungary, Budapest.
28-Feb 0930/0430 ECB Executive Board member Tommaso Padoa- F Schioppa speaks in Rome.
28-Feb 1100/0600 EMU Jan Final HICP data released.
28-Feb 1100/0600 EMU Feb EMU Economic Sentiment Index data and business climate indicator release
Fd. 28-Feb 1100/0600 EMU Feb Flash HICP data released.
28-Feb NA ECB Governing Council member Ernst Welteke speaks in Bombay, India.
28-Feb 1230/0830 US preliminary 4Q-02 Gross Domestic Pro Fduct
28-Feb 1230/0830 Canada Dec-02 and 4Q-02 real GDP
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 Lead Fing Index.
28-Feb 2000/1500 US Feb-03 Agriculture Prices
28-Feb n/a St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole to address the Missouri Valley Economic As Fsociation, in St. Louis, Missouri.
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03-Mar 0700/0200 Germany Jan-03 retail sales
03-Mar 0800/0300 Italy Feb-03 preliminary HICP, CPI
03-Mar 0845/0345 Italy Feb-03 Manufacturing PMI
03-Mar F 0850/0350 France Jan-03 CDAF- manufacturing PMI
03-Mar 0855/0355 Germany Feb-03 BME/ Manufacturing PMI
03-Mar 0930/0430 U.K. Feb PMI manufacturing
03-Mar 1100/0600 France Jan-03 New car registrations
F 03-Mar n/a Germany Jan-03 BBK Total retail sales (y/y)
03-Mar n/a US Feb-03 Domestic Car and Light Truck Sales
03-Mar 1230/0830 US Feb-03 Personal Income
03-Mar 1445/0945 Federal Reserve Gov. Sus Fan Schmidt-Bies gives a speech on banking supervision to the Institute of International Bankers in Washington.
03-Mar 1500/1000 US Feb-03 ISM Index, and Jan-03 Construction F Spending