Schedule for today, Thursday, Jan 31’2013:

00:01 United Kingdom Gfk Consumer Confidence January -29 -27

00:30 Australia HIA New Home Sales, m/m December +4.7%

00:30 Australia Import Price Index, q/q IV quarter -2.4% +0.5%

00:30 Australia Export Price Index, q/q IV quarter -6.4% -1.5%

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, m/m December 0.0% +0.2%

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, y/y December +3.5% +3.4%

01:30 Japan Labor Cash Earnings, YoY December -1.1% +1.1%

05:00 Japan Annualized Housing Starts, bln December 0.907 0.895

07:00 Germany Retail sales, real adjusted December +1.2% +0.1%

07:00 Germany Retail sales, real unadjusted, y/y December -0.9% -1.3%

07:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index January -0.1% +0.3%

07:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index, y/y January -1.0% -0.5%

07:45 France Consumer spending December +0.2% +0.3%

07:45 France Consumer spending, y/y December -0.2% +0.1%

08:55 Germany Unemployment Change January +3 -9

08:55 Germany Unemployment Rate s.a. January 6.9% 6.9%

13:00 Germany CPI, m/m (preliminary) January +0.9% -0.5%

13:00 Germany CPI, y/y (preliminary) January +2.1% +2.0%

13:30 Canada GDP (m/m) November +0.1% +0.2%

13:30 Canada Raw Material Price Index December -1.9% +0.9%

13:30 Canada Industrial product prices, m/m December -0.3% +0.1%

13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims - 330 355

13:30 U.S. Employment Cost Index IV quarter +0.4% +0.6%

13:30 U.S. Personal Income, m/m December +0.6% +0.7%

13:30 U.S. Personal spending December +0.4% +0.4%

13:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, m/m December 0.0% +0.1%

13:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, Y/Y December +1.5% +1.5%

14:45 U.S. Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index January 51.6 51.1

22:30 Australia AIG Manufacturing Index January 44.3

23:30 Japan Household spending Y/Y December +0.2% -0.1%

23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate December 4.1% 4.1%