Schedule for today, Thursday, Mar 1'2012:

00:30 Australia Building Permits, m/m January -1.0% +2.1%

00:30 Australia Building Permits, y/y January -24.5% -13.7%

00:30 Australia Private Capital Expenditure IV quarter +12.3% +3.9%

01:00 China Manufacturing PMI February 50.5 50.9

02:30 China HSBC Manufacturing PMI (finally) February 48.8 49.7

05:30 Australia RBA Commodity prices, y/y February +6.0%

06:45 Switzerland Gross Domestic Product (QoQ) IV quarter +0.2% -0.1%

07:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index February -0.2% +0.3%

07:00 United Kingdom Nationwide house price index, y/y February +0.6% +0.3%

08:30 Switzerland Manufacturing PMI February 47.3 48.6

08:50 France Manufacturing PMI (finally) February 48.5 50.2

08:55 Germany Manufacturing PMI (finally) February 51.0 50.1

09:00 Eurozone Manufacturing PMI (finally) February 48.8 49.0

09:30 United Kingdom Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing February 52.1 51.9

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI, Y/Y (preliminary) February +2.7% +2.6%

10:00 Eurozone Unemployment Rate January 10.4% 10.4%

13:30 Canada Current Account, bln IV quarter -12.1 -9.4

13:30 Canada Raw Material Price Index January -2.4% 0.0%

13:30 Canada Industrial product prices, m/m January -0.7% +0.4%

13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims 24.02.2012 351 349

13:30 U.S. Personal Income, m/m January +0.5% +0.5%

13:30 U.S. Personal spending January 0.0% +0.4%

13:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, m/m January +0.2% +0.2%

13:30 U.S. PCE price index ex food, energy, Y/Y January +1.8%

15:00 U.S. Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks 0

15:00 U.S. ISM Manufacturing February 54.1 54.6

15:00 U.S. Construction Spending, m/m January +1.5% +1.1%

15:30 U.S. FOMC Member Raskin Speaks 0

17:30 U.S. FOMC Member Dennis Lockhart Speaks 0

18:47 Japan Tokyo Consumer Price Index, y/y February -0.3% -0.2%

23:30 Japan Health-Sports Day January +0.5% -0.7%

23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate January 4.6% 4.5%

23:30 Japan National Consumer Price Index, y/y January -0.2% -0.1%

23:30 Japan National CPI Ex-Fresh Food, y/y January -0.1% -0.2%

23:30 Japan Tokyo CPI ex Fresh Food, y/y February -0.3% -0.2%