Lots of economic dockets and events scheduled for today and some with high volatility risks associated.
Data released so far:
- Australia: Gross operating profits of companies increase by 20.1 percent in the fourth quarter.
Upcoming:
- Spain: Flash HICP inflation will be reported at 8:00 GMT.
- Italy: Trade balance numbers for January will be reported at 9:00 GMT.
- Eurozone: Private loans report for January and money supply stats will be published at 9:00 GMT. Eurozone confidence readings will be published at 10:00 GMT.
- Portugal: Business and consumer confidence for February will be released at 10:30 GMT.
- Switzerland: SNB governing board member Zurbrugg is scheduled to speak at 12:30 GMT.
- United States: Durable goods orders will be reported at 13:30 GMT, followed by pending home sales report at 15:00 GMT and Dallas Fed manufacturing index at 15:30 GMT. FOMC member Kaplan is scheduled to speak at 16:00 GMT.
- New Zealand: Trade balance report for January will be published at 21:45 GMT.
- Japan: Flash industrial production report for February and retail sales report for January will be announced at 23:50 GMT.
- Auctions: US will auction 3-month, and 6-month bills at 16:30 GMT.


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