Schedule for today, Thursday, Dec 13’2012:

00:00 Australia Consumer Inflation Expectation December +2.2% +1.8%

00:30 Australia New Motor Vehicle Sales (MoM) November -2.8% 0.0%

00:30 Australia New Motor Vehicle Sales (YoY) November +8.6% +9.7%

06:45 Switzerland SECO Economic Forecasts Quarter I

08:15 Switzerland Producer & Import Prices, m/m November -0.1% -0.3%

08:15 Switzerland Producer & Import Prices, y/y November +0.4% +1.0%

08:30 Switzerland SNB Interest Rate Decision - 0.25% 0.25%

08:30 Switzerland SNB Monetary Policy Assessment -

08:30 Switzerland SNB Press Conference -

09:00 Eurozone ECB Monthly Report December

09:00 Eurozone EU Economic Summit -

09:00 Eurozone Eurogroup Meetings -

11:00 United Kingdom CBI industrial order books balance December -21 -17

13:30 Canada New Housing Price Index October +0.2% +0.1%

13:30 U.S. Retail sales November -0.3% +0.4%

13:30 U.S. Retail sales excluding auto November 0.0% -0.1%

13:30 U.S. PPI, m/m November -0.2% -0.4%

13:30 U.S. PPI, y/y November +2.3% +1.8%

13:30 U.S. PPI excluding food and energy, m/m November -0.2% +0.2%

13:30 U.S. PPI excluding food and energy, Y/Y November +2.1% +2.2%

13:30 U.S. Initial Jobless Claims - 370 370

15:00 U.S. Business inventories October +0.7% +0.4%

23:50 Japan BoJ Tankan. Manufacturing Index IV quarter -3