Key events for next week: RBA and Fed Meeting's Minutes, UK and Australia unemployment rate, UK, Canada and Japan CPI, UK retail sales, eurozone, UK and US PMI’s

On Monday, at 04:30 GMT Japan will announce a change in industrial production for December. At 08:00 GMT the Eurogroup meeting will take place/ At 11:00 GMT, the Bundesbank monthly report will be released. At 13:30 GMT Canada will report a change in foreign securities purchases for December.

On Tuesday, at 00:30 GMT in Australia the RBA Meeting's Minutes will be released. At 07:00 GMT, a meeting of the Council of Ministers of Finance and Economics will take place. At 09:30 GMT UK will report a change in the number of applications for unemployment benefits in January, as well as unemployment and average earnings in December. At 10:00 GMT Germany and the eurozone will release the ZEW business sentiment index for February. At 13:30 GMT Canada will announce a change in the manufacturing shipments for December. Also at this time, the United States will publish the index of activity in the manufacturing sector from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February. At 15:00 GMT the US will present the NAHB Housing Market Index from February. At 21:00 GMT, the United States will announce a change in the net and total purchases of long-term US securities by foreign investors in December. At 23:30 GMT Australia will release the leading economic indicators from the Melbourne Institute for January. At 23:50 GMT, Japan will report a change in the core machinery orders for December and the balance of foreign trade in January.

On Wednesday, at 00:30 GMT Australia will release a labor price index for the 4th quarter. At 09:00 GMT, the eurozone will announce a change in the balance of payments for December. At 09:30 GMT UK will publish the consumer price index, retail price index and producer price index for January. At 13:30 GMT Canada will release the consumer price index for January, and the US will report changes in the volume of building permits and housing starts for January, as well as publish the producer price index for January. At 19:00 GMT in the US will be published the minutes of the Fed meeting in January. At 21:45 GMT, New Zealand will present the producer price index for the 4th quarter.

On Thursday, at 00:30 GMT Australia will announce a change in unemployment and the number of employed in January. At 07:00 GMT Germany will release the GfK consumer confidence index for March and the producer price index for January. At 07:45 GMT France will publish the consumer price index for January. At 09:30 GMT, UK will report a change in the volume of retail trade and the number of approved applications for mortgage loans in January, and at 11:00 GMT will release the balance of industrial orders of the Confederation of British Industrialists in February. At 12:30 GMT in the eurozone ECB Monetary Policy Meeting Accounts will be released. At 13:30 Canada will present a price index for new housing in January. Also at this time, the US will publish the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey for February and announce a change of initial jobless claims. At 15:00 GMT, the eurozone will release an indicator of consumer confidence for February, and the US - an index of leading indicators for January. At 16:00 GMT, the US will announce changes of crude oil inventories. At 23:30 GMT, Japan will publish the consumer price index for January.

On Friday, at 00:30 GMT Japan will release the manufacturing PMI and the index of business activity in the services sector for February. At 04:30 GMT Japan will present an index of activity in all sectors of the economy for December. Then, the focus will be on business activity indices in the manufacturing and services sectors for February: France will report at 08:15 GMT, Germany at 08: 30 GMT, the Eurozone at 09:00 GMT, and UK at 09:30 GMT. Also at 09:30 GMT UK will announce a change in net borrowed funds of the public sector in January. At 10:00 GMT, the eurozone will release a consumer price index for January. At 13:30 GMT Canada will report a change in retail sales for December. At 14:00 GMT in Belgium, the index of sentiment in business circles for February will be released. At 14:45 GMT the US will publish the manufacturing PMI and the services PMI for February. At 15:00 GMT the US will announce a change in existing home sales for January. At 18:00 GMT, in the US, Baker Hughes will release an oil rig count report.