Schedule for today, Thursday, Jan 18’2018 (GMT0)

00:00 Australia Consumer Inflation Expectation January 3.7%

00:30 Australia Changing the number of employed December 61.6 9

00:30 Australia Unemployment rate December 5.4% 5.4%

04:30 Japan Industrial Production (YoY) (Finally) November 5.9% 3.7%

04:30 Japan Industrial Production (MoM) (Finally) November 0.5% 0.6%

07:00 China NBS Press Conference

07:00 China Fixed Asset Investment December 7.2% 7.1%

07:00 China Retail Sales y/y December 10.2% 10.1%

07:00 China Industrial Production y/y December 6.1% 6%

07:00 China GDP y/y Quarter IV 6.8% 6.7%

08:00 Germany German Buba President Weidmann Speaks

13:30 U.S. Continuing Jobless Claims January 1867 1900

13:30 U.S. Housing Starts December 1.297 1.275

13:30 U.S. Building Permits December 1.298 1.29

13:30 U.S. Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey January 26.2 25.0

13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims January 261 250

14:30 Eurozone ECB's Benoit Coeure Speaks

16:00 U.S. Crude Oil Inventories January -4.948 -3.588

21:30 New Zealand Business NZ PMI December 57.7