Schedule for today, Thursday, May 16’2013:

02:00 New Zealand Annual Budget Release 2013

04:30 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) (Finally) March +0.2% +0.2%

04:30 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) (Finally) March -7.3%

06:45 France Non-Farm Payrolls (Preliminary) Quarter I -0.3% -0.3%

09:00 Eurozone Trade Balance s.a. March 12.0 11.8

09:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI April +1.2% -0.1%

09:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI, Y/Y (Finally) April +1.2% +1.2%

09:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI ex EFAT, Y/Y April +1.5% +1.0%

12:30 Canada Foreign Securities Purchases March -6.31 5.36

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims May 323 332

12:30 U.S. Building Permits, mln April 0.902 0.940

12:30 U.S. Housing Starts, mln April 1.036 0.980

12:30 U.S. CPI, m/m April -0.2% -0.3%

12:30 U.S. CPI, Y/Y April +1.5% +1.3%

12:30 U.S. CPI excluding food and energy, m/m April +0.1% +0.2%

12:30 U.S. CPI excluding food and energy, Y/Y April +1.9% +1.8%

14:00 U.S. Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey May 1.3 2.5

16:30 U.S. FOMC Member Raskin Speaks

22:00 New Zealand ANZ Job Advertisements (MoM) April +0.7%

22:45 New Zealand PPI Input (QoQ) Quarter I -0.3% +0.3%

22:45 New Zealand PPI Output (QoQ) Quarter I -0.1% 0.0%

23:50 Japan Core Machinery Orders March +7.5% +3.1%