Weekly Reports | Feb 06 2015
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By Greg Peel
US jobs numbers tonight, which will no doubt rekindle the fire of Fed rate rise debate after a brief hiatus of worrying about Europe and oil.
China releases its January trade numbers over the weekend.
Next week China releases inflation data, which will provide insight into the potential for more PBoC easing. It’s a quiet week in the US economic data-wise up until Thursday when retail sales and business inventories are released, flowed by fortnightly consumer sentiment on Friday. The end of the week also brings eurozone monthly industrial production and trade data and the first estimate of December quarter GDP.
It’s a busy week for Australian data, with ANZ job ads, NAB business and Westpac consumer confidence all due, along with housing finance and our own jobs numbers on Thursday. If good, Joe Hockey will put it down to the government’s moves to reign in the budget. If bad, it will be the previous Labor government’s fault.
The highlight from next week in Australia will nevertheless be the step-up in activity in the local six-monthly result season. It’s been a trickle up to now but next week sees a shift into a much higher gear as the results begin to come thick and fast.
The last two weeks of the month see an avalanche.
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