Schedule for today, Thursday, May 31'2012:

01:00 New Zealand NBNZ Business Confidence April 35.8

01:30 Australia Building Permits, m/m April +7.4% +0.7%

01:30 Australia Building Permits, y/y April -15.0% -13.8%

01:30 Australia Private Capital Expenditure Quarter I -0.3% +4.1%

01:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, m/m April +0.4% +0.3%

01:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, y/y April +3.4% +3.7%

01:30 Japan Labor Cash Earnings, YoY April +1.3% +1.1%

05:00 Japan Annualized Housing Starts, bln April 0.848 0.838

05:45 Switzerland Gross Domestic Product (QoQ) Quarter I +0.1% +0.0%

05:45 Switzerland Gross Domestic Product (YoY) Quarter I +1.3% +0.8%

06:00 Germany Retail sales, real adjusted April +0.8% +0.2%

06:00 Germany Retail sales, real unadjusted, y/y April +2.3% +0.3%

06:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index May -0.2% 0.0%

06:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index, y/y May -0.9% -1.1%

06:45 France Consumer spending April -2.9% +0.3%

06:45 France Consumer spending, y/y April -2.0% 0.0%

07:55 Germany Unemployment Change May 19 -7

07:55 Germany Unemployment Rate s.a. May 6.8% 6.8%

08:00 Switzerland Gov Board Member Danthine Speaks -

09:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI, Y/Y (preliminary) May +2.6% +2.5%

12:00 U.S. FOMC Member Pianalto Speaks -

12:15 U.S. ADP Employment Report May 119 139

12:30 Canada Current Account, bln Quarter I -10.3 -11.1

12:30 U.S. GDP, y/y (revised) Quarter I +3.0% +1.9%

12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, q/q Quarter I +2.1% +2.1%

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims - 370 369

13:45 U.S. Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index May 56.2 56.8

15:00 U.S. EIA Crude Oil Stocks change - +0.9

23:50 Japan Capital Spending Quarter I +7.6% +1.3%