Weekly Reports | Feb 17 2012
By Greg Peel
Obviously we will continue to be driven and dogged by developments relating to Greece next week and possibly for ever and quite frankly I'm sick of talking about it.
Back in the real world, next week is the busiest in the February results season locally with way too many names to attempt to highlight. The reports will continue until the end of the leap year the following week.
Australian economic data is always thin when results season is busy but we will see the minutes of the last RBA meeting on Tuesday and learn more on why the central bank stayed on Hold. We are also now counting down to the December quarter GDP result in March and to that end we'll see a Q4 wholesale price index and Q4 average weekly earnings.
The US will see its monthly CPI result tonight along with the leading economic index, ahead of a long weekend for Presidents Day. Wall Street will be closed on Monday. Thereafter the week sees existing and new homes sales and the FHFA house price index and the Treasury will auction two, five and seven year notes.
Non-Greek issues in Europe next week include the influential IFO business survey and on Friday revisions to both the German and UK GDP estimates.
For a more comprehensive preview of next week's events, please refer to "The Monday Report", published each Monday morning. For all economic data release dates, ex-div dates and times and other relevant information, please refer to the FNArena Calendar.