Schedule for today, Thursday, Sep 4’2014:

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

01:30 Australia Retail sales (MoM) July +0.6% +0.4%

01:30 Australia Retail Sales Y/Y July +5.5%

01:30 Australia Trade Balance July -1.68 -1.77

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

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

03:00 Japan BoJ Monetary Policy Statement

06:00 Germany Factory Orders s.a. (MoM) July -3.2% +1.6%

06:00 Germany Factory Orders n.s.a. (YoY) July -4.3%

07:00 United Kingdom Halifax house price index August +1.4% +0.2%

07:00 United Kingdom Halifax house price index 3m Y/Y August +10.2%

07:30 Japan BOJ Press Conference

11:00 United Kingdom Asset Purchase Facility 375 375

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

11:00 United Kingdom MPC Rate Statement

11:45 Eurozone ECB Interest Rate Decision 0.15% 0.15%

12:15 U.S. ADP Employment Report August 218 216

12:30 Eurozone ECB Press Conference

12:30 Canada Trade balance, billions July 1.9 0.9

12:30 U.S. International Trade, bln July -41.5 -42.5

12:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims August 298 298

12:30 U.S. Nonfarm Productivity, q/q (Finally) Quarter II +2.5% +2.5%

13:45 U.S. Services PMI (Finally) August 58.5 58.5

14:00 U.S. ISM Non-Manufacturing August 58.7 57.3

14:30 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories August -2.1

16:30 U.S. FOMC Member Mester Speaks

23:30 Australia AiG Performance of Construction Index August 52.6

23:30 U.S. FOMC Member Jerome Powell Speaks