Schedule for today, Thursday, Aug 30’2012:

01:00 New Zealand NBNZ Business Confidence July 15.1 19.5%

01:30 Australia Building Permits, m/m July -2.5% -4.7% -17.3%

01:30 Australia Building Permits, y/y July +10.2% +6.0% +4.8%

01:30 Australia Private Capital Expenditure Quarter II +6.1% +3.1% +3.4%

07:55 Germany Unemployment Change August 7 7

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

08:30 United Kingdom Net Lending to Individuals, bln July 0.3 1.1

08:30 United Kingdom Mortgage Approvals July 44.2 47.0

09:00 Eurozone Business climate indicator August -1.27 -1.30

09:00 Eurozone Industrial confidence August -15.0 -15.5

12:30 Canada Current Account, bln Quarter II -10.3 -15.1

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims - 372 370

12:30 U.S. Personal Income, m/m July +0.5% +0.4%

12:30 U.S. Personal spending July 0.0% +0.4%

12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, m/m July +0.2% +0.1%

12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, Y/Y July +1.8% +1.7%

15:00 U.S. Jackson Hole Symposium -

23:01 United Kingdom Gfk Consumer Confidence August -29 -26

23:30 Japan Household spending Y/Y July +1.6% +1.3%

23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate July 4.3% 4.3%

23:30 Japan Tokyo Consumer Price Index, y/y August -0.8% -0.7%

23:30 Japan Tokyo CPI ex Fresh Food, y/y August -0.6% -0.6%

23:30 Japan National Consumer Price Index, y/y July -0.2% -0.3%

23:30 Japan National CPI Ex-Fresh Food, y/y July -0.2% -0.3%

23:50 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) (preliminary) July +0.4% +1.8%

23:50 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) (preliminary) July -1.5% +1.8%