The Week Ahead: Fed minutes, Walmart results, UK CPI

Economic & company events calendar

Major scheduled data releases, plus other listed company results:

Monday 17 August
• Canada: July consumer price index (CPI)
• China: July industrial production, July retail sales
• Japan: Q2 gross domestic product (GDP)
• US: August Empire State manufacturing survey
• Results: Costain (HY), Duos Technologies Group (Q2), Fabrinet (Q4), Flexsteel (Q4), MTI Wireless Edge (Q2), Optima (FY)

Tuesday 18 August
• Germany: August ZEW economic sentiment survey
• UK: June average earnings, unemployment rate
• US: July building permits, housing starts, industrial production, pending home sales
• Results: BHP (FY), Cambridge Nutritional Sciences (FY), Empresaria Group (HY), Home Depot (Q2), Keysight (Q3), Morgan Advanced Materials (HY), Synectics (HY), Toll Brothers (Q3)

Wednesday 19 August
• Germany: July consumer price index (CPI)
• UK: July CPI, producer price index (PPI), retail price index (RPI)
• US: Federal Open Market Committee minutes
• Results: Analog (Q3), Ithaca Energy (HY), Kenmare Resources (HY), Lowe’s (Q2), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (HY), Target (Q2), TJX (Q2)

Thursday 20 August
• Australia: July unemployment rate
• China: PBoC interest rate decision
• Germany: July PPI
• Japan: July trade balance
• US: August Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey, weekly initial jobless claims
• Results: Capital (HY), John Deere (Q3), Hays (FY), Ross Stores (Q2), Walmart (Q2)

Friday 21 August
• Australia: August flash manufacturing & services purchasing managers’ indices (PMIs)
• Germany: August flash manufacturing & services PMIs
• Eurozone: August consumer confidence,
• flash manufacturing & services PMIs
• Japan: July CPI
• UK: August GfK consumer confidence, flash manufacturing & services PMIs, July retail sales
• US: August flash manufacturing & services PMIs
• Results: BJ’s Wholesale Club (Q2), Flowers Foods (Q2), Hunting (HY), IntChains (Q2), The Buckle (Q2)