Schedule for today, Thursday, Sep 5’2013:

00:00 G20 G20 Meetings

00:00 U.S. FOMC Member Narayana Kocherlakota

01:30 Australia Trade Balance July 0.60 0.11 -0.77

03:00 Japan BoJ Interest Rate Decision 0.10% 0.10% 0.10%

03:00 Japan Bank of Japan Monetary Base Target 270 270 270

03:00 Japan BoJ Monetary Policy Statement

07:00 United Kingdom Halifax house price index August +0.9% +0.7%

07:00 United Kingdom Halifax house price index 3m Y/Y August +4.6% +5.6%

07:30 Japan BOJ Press Conference

10:00 Germany Factory Orders s.a. (MoM) July +3.8% -0.7%

10:00 Germany Factory Orders n.s.a. (YoY) July +4.3% +2.7%

11:00 United Kingdom BoE Interest Rate Decision 0.50% 0.50%

11:00 United Kingdom Asset Purchase Facility 375 375

11:00 United Kingdom MPC Rate Statement

11:45 Eurozone ECB Interest Rate Decision 0.50% 0.50%

12:15 U.S. ADP Employment Report August 200 181

12:30 Eurozone ECB Press Conference

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims August 331 330

12:30 U.S. Nonfarm Productivity, q/q (Finally) Quarter II +0.9% +1.8%

13:00 U.S. FOMC Member Narayana Kocherlakota

14:00 U.S. ISM Non-Manufacturing August 56.0 55.2

14:00 U.S. Factory Orders July +1.5% -3.2%

15:00 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories August +3.0

23:30 Australia AiG Performance of Construction Index August 44.1