DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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28-Mar 0745/0245 French unemployment data for Feb. released.
28-Mar 0750/0250 French PPI data for Feb. to be rDeleased.
28-Mar 0800/0300 Italian Jan. industrial orders and turnover data to be released.
28-Mar 0830/0330 Swedish Riksbank to release minutes of its March 17 meeting, at which Dit agreed to cut rates 25bp.
28-Mar 0900/0400 EMU Feb M3 data released by the ECB.
28-Mar 0930/0430 U.K. Q4 productivity data to be released.
28-Mar n/a Italy to sell 3.50% coupon BTP debt mDaturing 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 refDorms in the low-wage sector" in Frankfurt.
28-Mar 1245/0745 Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Michael Moskow to make opening remarks at Fed confer- ence on community development, in WashinDgton.
28-Mar 1330/0830 U.S. personal income and outlays and PCE chain price index for February.
28-Mar 1445/0945 U.S. Univ. of Michigan final consumer sentiment for March.
28-Mar D 1500/1000 Bank of Mexico monetary policy decision.
28-Mar n/a President Bush to host Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali at the White House.
28-Mar 1530/1030 U.S. ECRI leading inDdex 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 D U.S. agriculture prices for March.
28-Mar n/a Mexico maquiladora employment and manhours for January.
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29-Mar 2330/1830* Japan Tokyo CPI for March and nationwide CPI foDr February; unemployment rate and jobs to applicants and workers household spending for February.
29-Mar 0500/0000 Japan housing starts for February.
29-Mar 1330/0830 ECB Chief EconoDmist Otmar Issing to take part in a panel discussion on "Achieving Monetary Financial Stability" at the Bank for Int'l Settlements in Basle, Switzerland.
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30-Mar D n/a Summer time begins in continental Europe and the U.K., meaning continental Europe goes to two hours ahead of GMT and the U.K. one hour ahead of GMT. North AmeriDca will change to daylight savings time on April 6, meaning that for one week continental Europe will be seven hours ahead of New York and London will be six D hours ahead of New York.
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31-Mar 1330/0830 Canada real GDP at basic prices for January.
31-Mar 1440/0940 Deadline for weekly tenders on $1 billion in U.S. Freddie Mac 1-month Reference Bills Dand $1 billion in 2-month bills.
31-Mar 1500/1000 U.S. Chicago purchasing managers index for March.
31-Mar 1500/1000 Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight D to release fourth-quarter 2002 capital classif- ication numbers for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
31-Mar 1600/1100 Swiss National Bank board member Niklaus Blattner to speak in KreuzlingDen, Switzerland.
31-Mar 1800/1300 Deadline for weekly tenders on $16 billion in U.S. Treasury 3-month bills and $17 billion in 6-month bills.
31-Mar 2010/1510 Boston Federal Reserve DBank President Cathy Minehan to speak about the technology outlook in New England, Waltham, Mass. Q&A expected.