A daily rundown of the economic reports and corporate earnings that will be grabbing the market’s attention in the week ahead
Monday December 22
U.K. GDP
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s industrial product and raw materials price indexes for November. Estimates are month-over-month increases of 0.3 per cent and 1.0 per cent, respectively.
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Tuesday December 23
Japan machine tool orders
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s monthly real GDP for October. The Street is projecting a month-over-month decline of 0.3 per cent.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian construction investment for October.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. real GDP and GDP price index for Q3. The consensus projections are annualized rate increases of 3.2 per cent and 2.7 per cent, respectively.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. durable orders and core orders for October. Consensus is a month-over-month decline of 1.5 per cent and an increase of 0.4 per cent, respectively.
(9:15 a.m. ET) U.S. industrial production and capacity utilization for November.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index for December.
(1:30 p.m. ET) Bank of Canada’s Summary of Deliberation for the Dec. 10 decision.
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Wednesday December 24
Bank of Japan’s minutes from Oct. 29-30 meeting
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian manufacturing sales for November.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. initial jobless claims for week of Dec. 20. Estimate is 227,000, up 3,000 from the previous week.
Also: Ottawa’s budget balance for October.
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Thursday December 25
Canadian and U.S. markets closed (Christmas)
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Friday December 26
Canadian markets closed (Boxing Day)
China industrial profits
Japan CPI, jobless rate, retail sales and industrial production