Schedule for today, Tuesday, Mar 5’2013:

00:01 United Kingdom BRC Retail Sales Monitor y/y February +1.9% +0.9%

00:30 Australia Retail sales (MoM) January -0.2% +0.4%

00:30 Australia Retail Sales Y/Y January +2.3%

00:30 Australia Current Account, bln Quarter IV -14.9 -15.2

01:30 Japan Labor Cash Earnings, YoY January -1.4% -0.3%

01:45 China HSBC Services PMI February 54.0

03:30 Australia Announcement of the RBA decision on the discount rate March 3.00% 3.00%

03:30 Australia RBA Rate Statement March

08:00 United Kingdom Halifax house price index February -0.2% +0.4%

08:00 United Kingdom Halifax house price index 3m Y/Y February +1.3%

08:50 France Services PMI (Finally) February 42.7 42.7

08:55 Germany Services PMI (Finally) February 54.1 54.1

09:00 Eurozone Services PMI (Finally) February 47.3 47.3

09:00 Eurozone ECOFIN Meetings March

09:30 United Kingdom Purchasing Manager Index Services February 51.5 51.5

10:00 Eurozone Retail Sales (MoM) January -0.8% +0.3%

10:00 Eurozone Retail Sales (YoY) January -3.4% -3.0%

15:00 U.S. ISM Non-Manufacturing February 55.2 55.0