Calendar
A daily rundown of the economic reports and corporate earnings that will be grabbing the market's attention in the week ahead.
Monday February 29
Japan industrial production and retail sales
Euro area consumer price index
Germany retail sales
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada current account deficit for fourth quarter, Consensus is $15.8-billion ($63.2-billion annualized rate), down from $16.2-billion ($64.8-billion) in Q3.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada industrial product price index and raw materials price index for January. Consensus is declines of 0.1 per cent and 2.6 per cent, respectively.(10 a.m. ET) U.S. pending home sales for January. Consensus is an increase of 0.6 per cent from December.
Earnings include: Atlantic Power Corp.; Equitable Group Inc.; Icahn Enterprises LP; Juno Therapeutics Inc.; Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc.; NRG Energy Inc.; OPKO Health Inc.; Orbital ATK Inc.; PrairieSky Royalty Ltd.; Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.; Vermilion Energy Inc.
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Tuesday March 1
Japan jobless rate, household spending, capital spending, manufacturing purchasing managers' index
China PMI
Euro area PMI and jobless rate
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada real gross domestic product and chain prices for fourth quarter. Estimates are a 0.1-per-cent annualized rate increase for the former from the third quarter and a 0.6-per-cent annualized rate increase for the latter.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada real GDP at basic prices for December. Consensus is an increase of 0.1 per cent from November.
(9:30 a.m. ET) Canada RBC manufacturing PMI for February.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. manufacturing ISM for February. For PMI, consensus is 48.5, up from 48.2 in January. For prices paid, consensus is 35.0, up from 33.5 in previous month.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. construction spending for January. Consensus is an increase of 0.5 per cent from December.
Also: Canada auto sales for February.
Earnings include: Aecon Group Inc.; Autozone Inc.; Avigilon Corp.; Bank of Nova Scotia; Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.; Dollar Tree Inc.; Gibson Energy Inc.; Glencore PLC; Maple Leaf Foods Inc.; Secure Energy Services Inc.; SunOpta Inc.; Wajax Corp.
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Wednesday March 2
Euro area producer price index
(8:15 a.m. ET) U.S. ADP National Employment Report (and revisions) for February.
(2 p.m. ET) U.S. Beige Book released
Earnings include: CanWel Building Materials Group Ltd.; Costco Wholesale Corp.; DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd.; Element Financial Corp.; Liquor Stores NA Ltd.; Long Run Exploration Ltd.; Major Drilling Group International Inc.; Morneau Shepell Inc.; Newalta Corp.; Painted Pony Petroleum Ltd.; Parkland Fuel Corp.; Peyto Exploration & Development Corp.; Points International Ltd.; PWC Capital Inc.; Shawcor Ltd.; Trimac Transportation Ltd.; Trinidad Drilling Ltd.; ZCL Composites Inc.
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Thursday March 3
Japan, China and Euro area services and composite PMI
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. initial jobless claims for week of Feb. 27. Estimate is 270,000, down from 272,000 in the previous week.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. productivity and unit labour costs for fourth quarter (final). Consensus is an annualized rate decline of 3.3 per cent and an increase of 4.8 per cent, respectively, from third quarter.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. factory orders for January. Consensus is an increase of 2 per cent from December.
Earnings include: Advantage Oil & Gas Ltd.; Axia NetMedia Corp.; Barnes & Noble Inc.; Baytex Energy Corp.; Broadcom Ltd.; Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.; Canadian Western Bank; Canyon Services Group Inc.; Cara Operations Ltd.; Cooper Companies Ltd.; Data Group Ltd.; Descartes Systems Group Inc.; Enghouse Systems Ltd.; Freehold Royalties Ltd.; George Weston Ltd.; Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.; Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corp.; Martinrea International Inc.; Mines Denison; Paramount Resources Ltd.; Pulse Seismic Inc.; Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.; SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.; Sprott Inc.; The Kroger Co.; TORC Oil & Gas Ltd.; TransGlobe Energy Corp.; Trilogy Energy Corp..
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Friday March 4
Euro area retail PMI
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada merchandise trade balance for January. Consensus is a deficit of $790-million, down from a deficit of $585-million in December.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada labour productivity for fourth quarter. Consensus is unchanged from third quarter.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. nonfarm payrolls for February. Consensus is an increase of 188,000 from January.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. unemployment rate for February. Consensus is 4.9 per cent, unchanged from January.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. average hourly earnings for February. Consensus is an increase of 0.2 per cent from January.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. trade deficit for January. Consensus is $43.9-billion, up $0.5-billion from December.
(10 a.m. ET) Canada Ivey Purchasing Managers' Index for February.
Earnings include: Detour Gold Corp.; Endeavour Silver Corp.; Morguard Corp.; Newmarket Gold Inc.; Staples Inc.