Economic Calendar, Global banking and Forex holidays

August�� 2008
Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri
				1
				CH
				US ISM
				US NFP
4	5	6	7	8
AU, CA	RBA Mtg		AU LabForce	CA Lab Force
US Persnl Inc	US FOMC Mtg		BOE Mtg
US Core PCE			ECB Mtg
11	12	13	14	15
UK Trade Bal	UK CPI	US Retail Sales	US Core CPI	IN
	US Trade Bal			US Cap U, Ind Prodn
				US TICS
18	19	20	21	22
	IN	BOE Min	CA CPI
	US Core PPI		US Philli Fed
	US Housing Starts
	BOJ Mtg
25	26	27	28	29
UK		US Durable Goods	US GDP Q2'08 (Pre)	IN GDP Q2'08
GER IFO				US Persnl Inc
				US Core PCE
				CA GDP

Date	Economic data	Exp	Prev	Actual
1-Aug	12:30 GMT Jul US NFP	�- 75K	- 51K	�- 51K
	12:30 GMT Jul US Unemployment rate	5.6%	5.5%	5.7%
	12:30 GMT Jul US Avg Hourly Earnings	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
	14:00 GMT July US Manufacturing ISM	49.4	50.2	50.0
4-Aug	12:30 GMT US June Personal Income	-0.1%	1.8%	0.1%
	12:30 GMT US June Core PCE Price Index Y/Y	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
5-Aug	04:30 GMT AUD RBA Interest Rate	7.25%	7.25%	7.25%
	18:15 GMT US FOMC Interest Rate	2.00%	2.00%	2.00%
7-Aug	00:30 GMT July Australia Labour Force	1.3K	29.8K	10.9K
	11:00 GMT BOE Mtg	5.00%	5.00%	5.00%
	11:45 GMT E-15 ECB Announcement	4.25%	4.25%	4.25%
8-Aug	11:00 GMT July CA Labour Force	5.0K	�-5.0K
11-Aug	08:30 GMT UK June Trade Balance (Goods and Services)		Stg -4.24 Bln
	08:30 GMT UK June Trade Balance (Goods)		Stg -7.5 Bln
12-Aug	08:30 GMT July UK CPI Y/Y		3.80%
	12:30 GMT US June Trade Balance		$� -59.8 Bln
13-Aug	12:30 GMT US July Retail Sales Core		0.80%
14-Aug	12:30 GMT US July Core CPI (MoM)		0.3%
15-Aug	13:00 GMT US Jun TICS (Net foreign purch of long-term Sec)		$ 67.0 Bln
	13:15 GMT US July Capacity Utilization		79.9%
	13:15 GMT US July Industrial Production		0.50%
19-Aug	05:00 GMT BOJ Meeting		0.5%
	12:30 GMT US Jul Core PPI (MoM)		0.2%
	12:30 GMT US Jul Core PPI (YoY)		2.9%
20-Aug	08:30 GMT UK BOE Minutes		7-2 hld
21-Aug	11:00 GMT CA Core Inflation Index Y/Y		1.5%
	14:00 GMT Jul US Philifed Index		-16.3
25-Aug	09:00 GMT Aug GER IFO Business Expectations		90.0
	09:00 GMT Aug GER IFO Business Situations		105.7
	09:00 GMT Aug GER IFO Business Climate		97.5
27-Aug	13:30 GMT Jul US Durable Goods Orders		2.0%
28-Aug	12:30 GMT US GDP Q1 08 (Pre)		1.9%
29-Aug	12:30 GMT US Jul Personal Income		0.001
	12:30 GMT US Jul Core PCE Price Index Y/Y		0.003
	13:30 GMT Jul-08 CA GDP by Industry (MoM)		-0.1%

		Exp	Prev	Actual