DATE GMT/EST EVENT
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05-Mar n/a Bank of Japan Policy Board meets and announces rate decision.
05-Mar nL/a Bank of England begins Monetary Policy Committee meeting. Rate decision March 6.
05-Mar n/a Germany to sell E7.0 billion in 4.50% debt maturing January 2013.
05-Mar 0800L/0300 Italy Feb New Car Registrations data released.
05-Mar 0800/0300 Italy Dec Large Ind Firm Employment data released.
05-Mar 0845/0345 Italy Feb Services PMI data released.
05-Mar 0850/L0350 France Feb CDAF- services PMI released.
05-Mar 0855/0355 Germany Feb BME/ Svcs PMI data released.
05-Mar 0900/0400 EMU Feb Services PMI SA data released.
05-Mar 0930/0430 U.K. Feb PMI serviceLs data released.
05-Mar 0930/0430 U.K. Feb Official reserves data released.
05-Mar 1100/0600 EMU Jan Industrial PPI data released.
05-Mar 1200/0700 U.S. MBA applications survey for Feb. 28 week.
05-Mar L 1300/0800 Norway's Norges Bank announces interest rate decision, releases inflation report.
05-Mar 1440/0940 Deadline for tenders on $3 billion in U.S. Freddie Mac 5-year notes.
05-MLar n/a U.S. Fannie Mae to sell $4 to $8 billion in 3-month bills and $1.5 to $4 billion in 6-month bills.
05-Mar 1500/1000 U.S. Institute for Supply Management non-manu- L facturing index for February.
05-Mar 1600/1100 U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow delivers remarks as he presents his signature to the mint to be included on U.S. currency.
L 05-Mar n/a ABC/Money Magazine weekly survey of U.S. consu- mer sentiment.
05-Mar 1900/1400 Federal Reserve to release periodic beige book survey of U.S. economic conditions, in LWashing- ton.
05-Mar 1900/1400 St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole to speak at a University of Ar- kansas luncheon in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
05-MLar 1900/1400 Secretary of State Colin Powell to give an up- date on U.S. policy toward Iraq, in Washington.
05-Mar 1900/1400 Federal Reserve Governor Donald Kohn to testify on the BusinLess Checking Freedom Act of 2003 to a House subcommittee, in Washington.
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06-Mar 2350/1850* Japan capital flows for Feb. 28 week.
06-Mar 0500/0000 Bank of Japan monthly report for March.
06-Mar 074L5/0245 France Jan Govt budget deficit data released.
06-Mar n/a France to sell E5.3 to E5.8 billion in 4.50% OAT debt maturing April 2013.
06-Mar n/a Spain to sell 10-year and 30-year Bonos.
L 06-Mar 0850/0350 Germany Feb unemployment data released.
06-Mar 1000/0500 OECD Chief Economist Jean-Philippe Cotis to assess global trends ahead of OECD's spring economic outlook inL April.
06-Mar 1030/0530 U.K. Feb BRC shop price index data released.
06-Mar 1100/0600 EMU GDP indicator-based fcast data released.
06-Mar 1100/0600 EMU 4Q-02 GDP 1st release.
06-Mar 1130/0630 U.K. Feb REC reportL on jobs released.
06-Mar 1200/0700 U.K. Bank of England MPC announces interest rate decision.
06-Mar 1245/0745 European Central Bank announces rate decision following its GoverninLg Council meeting. Press conference by President Wim Duisenberg to follow at 1330 GMT (0830 EDT).
06-Mar 1330/0830 U.S. jobless claims for week ended March 1 and fouLrth-quarter 2002 non-farm productivity and unit labor costs.
06-Mar 1330/0830 Canada building permits for January.
06-Mar 1500/1000 U.S. factory orders for January.
06-Mar n/a U.S. same storeL sales for February.
06-Mar 1800/1300 Eurogroup meeting of EMU-12 finance ministers.
06-Mar 2000/1500 U.S. Treasury STRIPs for February.
06-Mar 2130/1630 U.S. M2 money supply for Feb. 24 week.
06-Mar 0110/2010 FeLderal Reserve Gov. Edward Gramlich delivers a speech on fiscal and monetary policy to the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Business Economics.