Schedule for today, Wednesday, Feb 27’2013:

00:30 Australia Construction Work Done Quarter IV +1.7% +1.5%

07:00 Switzerland UBS Consumption Indicator January 1.34

07:00 Germany Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey March 5.8 5.9

07:45 France Consumer confidence February 86 86

08:00 Switzerland KOF Institute Economic Forecast February 1.05 1.00

09:00 Eurozone M3 money supply, adjusted y/y January +3.3% +3.2%

09:20 United Kingdom MPC Member Bean Speaks

09:30 United Kingdom Business Investment, q/q (Preliminary) Quarter IV +5.1%

09:30 United Kingdom GDP, q/q (Revised) Quarter IV -0.3% -0.3%

09:30 United Kingdom GDP, y/y (Revised) Quarter IV 0.0% 0.0%

10:00 Eurozone Industrial confidence February -13.9 -13.1

10:00 Eurozone Business climate indicator February -1.09 -1.02

13:30 U.S. Durable goods orders ex defense January +1.2% -3.4%

13:30 U.S. Durable Goods Orders January +4.6% -4.1%

13:30 U.S. Durable Goods Orders ex Transportation January +1.3% +0.3%

15:00 U.S. Fed Chairman Bernanke Testifies

15:00 U.S. Pending Home Sales (MoM) January -4.3% +1.7%

15:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories +4.1

17:30 Eurozone ECB President Mario Draghi Speaks

21:45 New Zealand Building Permits, m/m January +9.4% -2.0%

23:15 Japan Manufacturing PMI February 47.7

23:50 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) (Preliminary) January +2.4% +1.6%

23:50 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) (Preliminary) January -7.9% -4.8%