Schedule for today, Thursday, Aug 29’2013:

01:00 Australia HIA New Home Sales, m/m July +3.4% -4.7%

01:00 New Zealand ANZ Business Confidence August 52.8 48.1

01:30 Australia Private Capital Expenditure Quarter II -4.1% Revised From -4.7% +0.2% +4.0%

07:15 Switzerland Employment Level Quarter II 4.15 4.14

07:55 Germany Unemployment Change August -7 -5

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

12:00 Germany CPI, m/m (Preliminary) August +0.5% +0.2%

12:00 Germany CPI, y/y (Preliminary) August +1.9% +1.7%

12:30 Canada Industrial Product Prices, m/m July +0.3% +0.4%

12:30 Canada Current Account, bln Quarter II -14.1 -14.9

12:30 Canada Raw Material Price Index July +0.3% +1.2%

12:30 U.S. PCE price index, q/q Quarter II +1.8% +1.8%

12:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, q/q Quarter II +0.8% +0.8%

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims August 336 329

12:30 U.S. GDP, q/q (Revised) Quarter II +1.7% +2.3%

12:50 U.S. FOMC Member James Bullard Speaks

16:00 Eurozone ECB's Jens Weidmann Speaks

18:00 U.S. FOMC Member Laker Speaks

22:45 New Zealand Building Permits, m/m July -4.0% +1.3%

23:01 United Kingdom Gfk Consumer Confidence August -16 -13

23:15 Japan Manufacturing PMI August 50.7

23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate July 3.9% 3.9%

23:30 Japan Household spending Y/Y July -0.4% +0.4%

23:30 Japan Tokyo Consumer Price Index, y/y August +0.4% +0.5%

23:30 Japan Tokyo CPI ex Fresh Food, y/y August +0.3% +0.4%

23:30 Japan National Consumer Price Index, y/y July +0.2% +0.7%

23:30 Japan National CPI Ex-Fresh Food, y/y July +0.4% +0.7%

23:45 U.S. FOMC Member James Bullard Speaks

23:50 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) (Preliminary) July -3.1% +3.9%

23:50 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) (Preliminary) July -4.6% +2.0%