Monday December 23
U.K. GDP
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s monthly GDP for October.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian manufacturing sales for November.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s industrial product and raw materials price indexes for November. Estimates are month-over-month increases of 0.1 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index for December.
(1:30 p.m. ET) Bank of Canada’s summary of deliberations for the Dec. 11 decision are released.
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Tuesday December 24
Bank of Japan minutes from October meeting are released
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. durable orders for November. The Street is expecting a decline of 0.3 per cent from October with core orders rising 0.1 per cent.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. new home sales for November. Consensus is an annualized rate rise of 9.0 per cent.
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Wednesday December 25
U.S., Canadian and European markets closed
Japan’s machine tool orders for November are announced.
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Thursday December 26
European and Canadian markets closed
Japan CPI
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. initial jobless claims for week of Dec. 21. Estimate is 227,000, up 7,000 from the previous week.
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Friday December 27
China industrial profits and current account surplus
Japan jobless rate, retail sales and industrial production
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. goods trade deficit for November.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. wholesale and retail inventories for November.