Weekly Reports | Feb 12 2016
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.
By Greg Peel
China will be back in business next week, which may prove interesting for metals prices. The iron ore market all but shuts down in China’s absence but base metal markets suffer extreme volatility due to thin volumes, as has proven the case again this week.
Beijing will immediately hit the market with January trade numbers on Monday, followed by inflation numbers on Thursday.
The eurozone will report December quarter GDP tonight as will Japan on Monday.
It’s a long weekend for the US due to the Presidents’ Day holiday on Monday and all markets will be closed. This would suggest some squaring up on Wall Street ahead of the break but in the current volatile environment, anything can happen.
US data releases next week include housing sentiment and starts, industrial production, inflation and the Empire State and Philly Fed activity indices. The minutes of the January Fed meeting are due on Wednesday.
The minutes of the February RBA meeting are due on Tuesday, ahead of Australia’s employment numbers on Thursday.
Next week sees the local reporting season shift into top gear as the week progresses. The volume of reports means there are just too many from which to select highlights, so please refer to the FNArena calendar (link above).
Please note also the calendar is compiled on a best endeavours basis. Australian companies are under no regulatory obligation to publish reporting dates and three different brokers often provide three different date assumptions for the same company. Other companies simply report when they’re ready, leading to apparent calendar omissions.
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