Begin of the monetary policy meeting (MPM) of the Bank of Japan (BoJ)

The meeting will be continued on May 22nd.

Publication of the minutes concerning the monetary policy meeting of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) from early in May

Publication of the Japanese all industry index for March 2013

The all industry index fell 0.3 % on the month. Year-on-year the index decreased 1.0 %.

Publication of the German producer price index ('Erzeugerpreisindex') for April 2013

Month-on-month the German producer price index fell 0.2 % in April after also -0.2 % in the preceding month.

Year-on-year the producer pri

Provisional estimate by the Bank of England (BoE) of the UK broad money and credit (M4 and M4 Lending)) for April 2013

Publication of the UK consumer price data (CPI, RPI, RPIX) for April 2013

In April the annual U.K. consumer price index (CPI) rose by 2.4 % after +2.8 % a month ago. Economists expected an inflation of 2.6 %, however.

The

Allotment of the European Central Bank's (ECB) main refinancing operation (MRO)

Germany's Bundesbank publicates their monthly bulletin (Monatsbericht) for May 2013.

Publication of the weekly US ICSC-UBS store sales data (Dayton Hudson, Federated, Kmart, May, J.C. Penney, Sears, Wal-Mart)

Publication of the weekly U.S. LJR Redbook

Auction of 4-week bills