Schedule for today, Thursday, Jan 12'2012:

01:30 China CPI y/y December +4.2% +4.0%

01:30 China PPI y/y December +2.7% +1.6%

05:00 Japan Eco Watchers Survey: Current December 45.0 46.3

05:00 Japan Eco Watchers Survey: Outlook December 44.7

06:00 Japan Prelim Machine Tool Orders, y/y December +15.8%   

06:30 France CPI, m/m December +0.3% +0.2%   

06:30 France CPI, y/y December +2.5% +2.3%   

07:00 Germany CPI, m/m December +0.7% +0.7%

07:00 Germany CPI, y/y December +2.1% +2.1%

09:30 United Kingdom Industrial Production (MoM) November -0.7% +0.1%

09:30 United Kingdom Industrial Production (YoY) November -1.7% -2.2%

09:30 United Kingdom Manufacturing Production (MoM) November -0.7% +0.1%

09:30 United Kingdom Manufacturing Production (YoY) November +0.3% -0.5%

10:00 Eurozone Industrial production, (MoM) November -0.1% -0.2%   

10:00 Eurozone Industrial Production (YoY) November +1.3% +0.3%   

12:00 United Kingdom BoE Interest Rate Decision 0 0.50% 0.50%

12:45 Eurozone ECB Interest Rate Decision 0 1.00% 1.00%

13:30 Eurozone ECB Press Conference 0

13:30 Canada New Housing Price Index November +0.2% +0.3%

13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims 07.01.2012 372 370   

13:30 U.S. Retail sales December +0.2% +0.3%   

13:30 U.S. Retail sales excluding auto December +0.2% +0.3%   

15:00 United Kingdom NIESR GDP Estimate December +0.3%

15:00 U.S. Business inventories November +0.8% +0.4%   

19:00 U.S. Federal budget December -137.3 -79.0