Amidst the corporate earnings season ramp up, another important week for local data, with home loan finance today literally connected to the unemployment rate figures coming out Thursday.
The big reporters this week are Commonwealth Bank (CBA) alongside Fortescue (FMG) on Wednesday, with Qantas (QAN) and Wesfarmers (WES) on Thursday amongst several small and mid-size retailers throughout the week.
Further afield, apart from the ongoing ructions in Greece, a brace of US-based data occurs Thursday, with the Empire State, Philly Fed Manufacturing Indices and Industrial Production numbers, with EU GDP numbers (and France/Germany) the night before.
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS):
Monday: Housing Finance Dec 2011
Wednesday: Lending Finance Dec 2011, Motor Vehicle Sales Jan 2012,
Thursday: Labour Force Jan 2012 (Unemployment)From the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA):
Thursday: Margin Lending D10 TableAustralian Earnings Season
Monday: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BEN), JB Hi-Fi (JBH), Leightons (LEI)
Tuesday: GWA Group (GWA), Paladin Energy (PDN)
Wednesday: Carsales (CRZ), Coffey International (COF), Commonwealth Bank (CBA), Dexus Property (DXS), Dominoes (DMP), Fortescue (FMG), Oz Minerals (OZL), Primary Health Care (PRY), The Reject Shop (TRS)
Thursday: Adelaide Brighton (ABC), Alumina (AWC), AMP, ASX, Brambles (BXB), Goodman Group (GMG), OceanGold (OCG), Qantas (QAN), QR National (QRN), Wesfarmers (WES)
Friday: Billabong (BBG), Charter Hall Retail (COQ), Duet Group (DUE), Santos (STO), Sims Metal (SGM), Spotless (SPT)Other Local and New Zealand data
Tuesday: NAB Business Confidence
Wednesday: Westpac Consumer Sentiment
Thursday: Melbourne Institute Inflation ExpectationsInternational:
Monday: Japan Prelim quarterly GDP
Tuesday: Japan OCR/Monetary Policy, UK CPI, EUR Industrial Production
Wednesday: US retail sales/import prices/business inventories, French/German prelim GDP, UK unemployment, EU Flash GDP
Thursday: US Empire State index/Industrial Production/FOMC Minutes
Friday: US building permits/PPI/Unemployment claims/Housing Starts/Philly Fed Index, German PPI, EU Flash Services PMI, UK retail sales