DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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27-Mar 0745/0245 French manufacturing sector sentiment data for March to be released.
27-Ma*r 0800/0300 Italian Jan. retail sales data to be released.
27-Mar 0830/0330 Italian Feb. retail sentiment data released.
27-Mar 0930/0430 U.K. revised Q4 GDP data to be released.
27-Mar 0930/0430 U.K. Q4 current a*ccount data to be released.
27-Mar 1100/0600 IMF to release Global Financial Stability Re- port, in Frankfurt, Germany.
27-Mar 1200/0700 ECB Executive Board member Eugenio Domingo S*olans to speak in Oslo, Norway on "The International Role of the Euro."
27-Mar 1330/0830 U.S. final gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 2002 and jobless claims for * the week ended March 22.
27-Mar 1330/0830 Canada industrial product and raw materials prices for February and average hourly earnings and payroll employment for January.
27-Mar * 1345/0845 ECB Governing Council member Ernst Welteke to speak in Wiesbaden, Germany.
27-Mar 1500/1000 U.S. help-wanted index for February.
27-Mar 1500/1000 Federal Reserve Governor Mark Olson to testi*fy to a House Financial Services subcommittee on banking regulation, in Washington.
27-Mar 1600/1100 President Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair to hold news co*nference at Camp David.
27-Mar n/a Mexico manufacturing employment and manhours for January.
27-Mar 2130/1630 U.S. M2 money supply for March 17 week.
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28-Mar 0745/0245 French unemployme*nt data for Feb. released.
28-Mar 0750/0250 French PPI data for Feb. to be released.
28-Mar 0800/0300 Italian Jan. industrial orders and turnover data to be released.
28-Mar 0830/0330 Swedish R*iksbank to release minutes of its March 17 meeting, at which it agreed to cut rates 25bp.
28-Mar 0900/0400 EMU Feb M3 data released by the ECB.
28-Mar 0930/0430 U.K. Q4 productivit*y data to be released.
28-Mar n/a Italy to sell 3.50% coupon BTP debt maturing Sept 2005 and 4.75% coupon maturing Feb 2013.
28-Mar n/a ECB Governing Council member Ernst Welteke to * participate in a conference on "Labor market reforms in the low-wage sector" in Frankfurt.
28-Mar 1245/0745 Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Michael Moskow to make opening r*emarks at Fed confer- ence on community development, in Washington.
28-Mar 1330/0830 U.S. personal income and outlays and PCE chain price index for February.
28-Mar 1445/0945 U.S. Un*iv. of Michigan final consumer sentiment for March.
28-Mar 1500/1000 Bank of Mexico monetary policy decision.
28-Mar n/a President Bush to host Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Zaf*arullah Khan Jamali at the White House.
28-Mar 1530/1030 U.S. ECRI leading index for March 21 week.
28-Mar 1800/1300 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak at a community development conference in * Washington. No audience Q&A expected.
28-Mar 2000/1500 U.S. agriculture prices for March.
28-Mar n/a Mexico maquiladora employment and manhours for January.