WORLD ECONOMY (Weekly Agenda May 16--20, 2011)

AHEAD OF THE CURVE!

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(May 16 -- 20, 2011)

WORLD: ; NORTH AMÉRICA: ***United States: FED's Lockhart Speaks (Sunday 15); U.S. Debt Ceiling Reached Today! (16);  Mortgage Foreclosures and Delinquencies (16); Empire Manufacturing (16); FED's Chairman Bernanke Speaks (16); TIC Flows (16); NAHB Housing Index (16); Building Permits (17); Housing Starts (17); Capacity Utilization (17); Industrial Production (17); MBA Mortgage Applications (18); DOE Oil Inventories (18); FED's Meeting Minutes (18); FED's Bullard Speaks (18); FED's Dudley Speaks (19); Weekly Jobless (19); Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index (19); Bloomberg Economic Expectations (19); Existing Home Sales (19);  Philadelphia FED (19); Leading Indicators (19); FED's Evans Speaks (19); FED's Dudley Speaks (20);    ; México; IMMEX Manufacturing (16); GDP (19); Economic Activity Global Indicator (19); Corporate Financial Evolution (1ºq) (19); ;Canada;  Manufacturing Shipments (16); BoC Carney Speaks (16); Leading Indicators (18); Wholesale Sales (18); BoC Review Release (19); BoC Mark Carney Speaks on Bretton Woods (19); Consumer Prices (20); Retail Sales 820) ;EUROPE; EU Finance Ministers Summit in Brussels (16--17); ; 25 New Car Registrations (17); Russia's Medvedev Annual Press Conference (18);    ; Britain: Consumer Confidence (16); Consumer Prices (17); DCLG House Prices (17); BoE Meeting Minutes (18); Unemployment Rate (18); Retail Sales (19);   ; Switzerland: ZEW Expectations (19);    ; EURO-ZONE : Consumer Prices (16); Trade Balance (16); ZEW Economic Confidence (17); Current Situation (17); ECB's Stark Speaks (18); ECB's Bini Smaghi Speaks (18); Construction (18); ECB's Constancio Speaks (18); ECB's Trichet, Tumpel-Gugerell Speak  (19); ECB's Mersch Speaks (20); Current Account (20); Consumer Confidence (20); ; Germany: Producer Prices (20)  ;Italy: Trade Balance (16); Consumer Prices (16); Current Account (19);    ;---ASIA, PACIFIC:---Japan:  Machine Orders (Sunday 15); Consumer Confidence (16);  Services (17); GDP (18); Housing Loans (18); Industrial Production (19); Capacity Utilization (19); BoJ Rate Decision (20); All Industry Activity Index (20); Convenience Store Sales (20);     :Australia: Home Loans (16); Value of Loans (16); RBA Rate Decision Minutes (17); Consumer Confidence (18);    ; New Zealand; Services (Sunday 15); Producer Prices (17); Consumer Confidence (18);  Credit Card Spending (20);     ;China: Actual Foreign Direct Investment (17); HSBC  Manufacturing PMI (18);   ;

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