Lots of economic dockets and events scheduled for today and some with high volatility risks associated.
Data released so far:
- Australia: HIA new home sales rose by 0.2 percent in February.
Upcoming:
- Spain: Flash HICP inflation for March will be reported at 7:00 GMT.
- Switzerland: KOF leading indicator for March will be updated at 7:00 GMT.
- Italy: Wage inflation report will be published at 8:00 GMT.
- Eurozone: Consumer confidence, services sentiment, Economic sentiment indicator, Business climate, and industrial confidence numbers will be updated at 9:00 GMT.
- Portugal: Business and consumer confidence will be reported at 9:30 GMT.
- Germany: Flash consumer inflation numbers will be released at 12:00 GMT.
- United States: Weekly jobless claims report will be published at 12:30 GMT, along with fourth quarter GDP. EIA will release weekly natural gas inventory report at 14:30 GMT.
- Canada: Raw material price and industrial price report set to be published at 12:30 GMT.
- New Zealand: February Building permits numbers will be published at 21:45 GMT.
- United Kingdom: GFK consumer confidence report will be published at 23:00 GMT.
- Japan: Tokyo and national CPI report at 23:30 GMT, along with unemployment report and household spending data and followed by industrial production numbers.
- Auction: Italy will auction 5-year and 10-year bond today.


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