Schedule for today, Thursday, Feb 28’2013:

00:00 New Zealand ANZ Business Confidence December 22.7

00:00 Australia HIA New Home Sales, m/m January +6.2%

00:01 United Kingdom Gfk Consumer Confidence February -26 -26

00:30 Australia Private Capital Expenditure Quarter IV +2.8% +1.1%

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, m/m January +0.4% +0.3%

00:30 Australia Private Sector Credit, y/y January +3.6% +3.7%

05:00 Japan Housing Starts, y/y January +10.0% +8.9%

06:45 Switzerland Gross Domestic Product (QoQ) Quarter IV +0.6% 0.0%

06:45 Switzerland Gross Domestic Product (YoY) Quarter IV +1.4% +0.9%

07:45 France Consumer spending January 0.0% -0.1%

07:45 France Consumer spending, y/y January -0.1% 0.0%

08:55 Germany Unemployment Change February -16 -5

08:55 Germany Unemployment Rate s.a. February 6.8% 6.8%

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI January +0.4% -0.1%

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI, Y/Y (Finally) January +2.0% +2.0%

10:00 Eurozone Harmonized CPI ex EFAT, Y/Y January +1.5% +1.5%

13:00 Germany CPI, m/m (Preliminary) February -0.5% +0.7%

13:00 Germany CPI, y/y (Preliminary) February +1.7% +1.7%

13:30 Canada Industrial Product Prices, m/m January 0.0% +0.2%

13:30 Canada Current Account, bln Quarter IV -18.9 -16.3

13:30 Canada Raw Material Price Index January -2.0% +1.1%

13:30 U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator Quarter IV +2.2% +2.3%

13:30 U.S. Core Personal Consumption Expenditure - Prices Index, y/y Quarter IV +0.9% +0.9%

13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims 362 361

13:30 U.S. GDP, q/q (Revised) Quarter IV -0.1% +0.5%

14:45 U.S. Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index February 55.6 54.1

17:30 U.S. FOMC Member Raskin Speaks

22:30 Australia AIG Manufacturing Index February 40.2

23:30 Japan Household spending Y/Y January -0.7% +0.5%

23:30 Japan Tokyo Consumer Price Index, y/y February -0.6% -0.6%

23:30 Japan Tokyo CPI ex Fresh Food, y/y February -0.5% -0.5%

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

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

23:30 Japan Unemployment Rate January 4.2% 4.2%

23:50 Japan Capital Spending Quarter IV +2.2% -7.0%