Schedule for today, Wednesday, May 16'2012:

00:30 Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence May -1.6%

01:30 Australia Wage Price Index, q/q Quarter I +1.0% +0.9%

01:30 Australia Wage Price Index, y/y Quarter I +3.6% +3.5%

08:30 United Kingdom Claimant count April 3.6 4.9

08:30 United Kingdom Claimant Count Rate April 4.9% 5.0%

08:30 United Kingdom ILO Unemployment Rate March 8.3% 8.3%

08:30 United Kingdom Average Earnings, 3m/y March +1.1% +1.1%

08:30 United Kingdom Average earnings ex bonuses, 3 m/y March +1.6% +1.4%

09:00 Switzerland Credit Suisse ZEW Survey (Expectations) May 2.1

09:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI April +1.3% +0.5%

09:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI, Y/Y (finally) April +2.7% +2.6%

09:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI ex EFAT, Y/Y April +1.6% +1.5%

09:00 Eurozone Trade Balance s.a. March 3.7 4.3

09:30 United Kingdom BOE Gov King Speaks -

09:30 United Kingdom Bank of England Quarterly Inflation Report Quarter II

11:00 U.S. MBA Mortgage Applications May +1.7%

12:30 Canada Manufacturing Shipments (MoM) March -0.3% +0.5%

12:30 U.S. Building Permits, mln April 0.747 0.730

12:30 U.S. Housing Starts, mln April 0.654 0.680

13:15 U.S. Industrial Production (MoM) April 0.0% +0.6%

13:15 U.S. Capacity Utilization April 78.6% 78.9%

14:00 Eurozone ECB President Mario Draghi Speaks -

14:30 U.S. EIA Crude Oil Stocks change -

18:00 U.S. FOMC meeting minutes -

20:00 U.S. Treasury Currency Report May

22:00 New Zealand ANZ Job Advertisements (MoM) April -1.0%

22:45 New Zealand PPI Input (QoQ) Quarter I +0.5% 0.0%

22:45 New Zealand PPI Output (QoQ) Quarter I +0.1% +0.2%

23:50 Japan GDP, q/q (preliminary) Quarter I -0.2% +0.9%