Here we show you a preview on the most important economic events this week, which could have a major influence at the financial markets. Please note the other single events with less influence on the markets, but which could move the markets in sum. You find all events of the week in our economic calendar.
This week a lot of economic data with major influence on the market will be published, but the focus of investors could be on the ECB interest rate decision, and also on the data from the US-economy, which couldn't convince in last week.
| Date/Time (GMT) | Event | Currency | Previous | Forecast |
| 13 April 2015 Tentative | Chinese Trade Balance (March) | CNY | 60.60B | 45.35B |
| 14 April 2015 09:30h | UK CPI (YoY / March) | GBP | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 14 April 2015 13:30h | US Core Retail Sales (MoM / March) | USD | -0.1% | 0.6% |
| 14 April 2015 13:30h | US PPI (MoM / March) | USD | -0.5% | 0.2% |
| 14 April 2015 13:30h | US Retail Sales (MoM / March) | USD | -0.6% | 1.0% |
| 15 April 2015 03:00h | Chinese GDP (YoY / Q1) | CNY | 7.3% | 7.0% |
| 15 April 2015 03:00h | Chinese GDP (QoQ / Q1) | CNY | 1.5% | 1.4% |
| 15 April 2015 03:00h | Chinese Industrial Production (YoY / March) | CNY | 6.8% | 6.9% |
| 15 April 2015 12:45h | ECB Interest Rate Decision (April) !! | EUR | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 15 April 2015 13:30h | ECB Press Conference !! | EUR | --- | --- |
| 15 April 2015 15:00h | Canada BoC Monetary Policy Report | CAD | --- | --- |
| 15 April 2015 15:00h | Canada BoC Interest Rate Decision | CAD | 0.75% | 0.75% |
| 15 April 2015 16:15h | Canada BoC Gov Poloz Speech | CAD | --- | --- |
| 16 April 2015 02:30h | Austr. Employment Change (March) | AUD | 15.6K | 15.0K |
| 16 April 2015 13:30h | US Buildings Permits (MoM / March) | USD | 1.102M | 1.080M |
| 16 April 2015 15:00h | US Philly Fed Manufactoring Index (April) | USD | 5.0 | 6.3 |
| 17 April 2015 09:30h | UK Avarage Earning Index +Bonus (Feb.) | GBP | 1.8% | 1.8% |
| 17 April 2015 09:30h | UK Claimant Cout Change (March) | GBP | -31.0K | -28.0K |
| 17 April 2015 10:00h | Euro Area CPI (YoY / March) | EUR | -0.1% | -0.1% |
| 17 April 2015 13:30h | US Core CPI (MoM / March) | USD | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| 17 April 2015 13:30h | Canada Core CPI (MoM / March) | CAD | 0.6% | 0.3% |
| 17 April 2015 13:30h | Canada Core Retail Sales (MoM / Feb.) | CAD | -1.8% | 0.5% |