Schedule for today, Wednesday, Aug 13’2014:

(time / country / index / period / previous value / forecast)

00:30 Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence August +1.9%

01:30 Australia Wage Price Index, q/q Quarter II +0.7% +0.8%

01:30 Australia Wage Price Index, y/y Quarter II +2.6%

05:30 China Retail Sales y/y July +12.4% +12.5%

05:30 China Fixed Asset Investment July +17.3% +17.4%

05:30 China Industrial Production y/y July +9.2% +9.1%

06:00 Germany CPI, m/m July +0.3% +0.3%

06:00 Germany CPI, y/y July +0.8% +0.8%

06:45 France CPI, m/m July 0.0% -0.2%

06:45 France CPI, y/y July +0.5%

08:30United Kingdom Average earnings ex bonuses, 3 m/y June +0.7%

08:30 United Kingdom Average Earnings, 3m/y June +0.3% -0.1%

08:30 United Kingdom Claimant count July -36.3 -29.7

08:30 United Kingdom Claimant Count Rate July 3.1%

08:30 United Kingdom ILO Unemployment Rate June 6.5% 6.4%

09:00 Eurozone Industrial production, (MoM) June -1.1% +0.5%

09:00 Eurozone Industrial Production (YoY) June +0.5%

09:00 Switzerland Credit Suisse ZEW Survey (Expectations) August 0.1

09:30 United Kingdom BOE Inflation Letter Quarter III

09:30 United Kingdom BOE Gov Mark Carney Speaks

12:30 U.S. Retail sales July +0.2% +0.2%

12:30 U.S. Retail sales excluding auto July +0.4% +0.4%

13:05 U.S. FOMC Member Dudley Speak

14:00 U.S. Business inventories June +0.5% +0.4%

14:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories August -1.8

22:30 New Zealand Business NZ PMI July 53.3

22:45 New Zealand Retail Sales, q/q Quarter II +0.7% +1.0%

22:45 New Zealand Retail Sales ex Autos, q/q Quarter II +0.8%

23:01 United Kingdom RICS House Price Balance July 53% 51%

23:50 Japan Core Machinery Orders June -19.5% +15.5%

23:50 Japan Core Machinery Orders, y/y June -14.3%