TFN economic and business calendar.

TFN economic and business calendar.

	Published : Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:07 By : Agencies Print this Story

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Key items expected today, Friday June 29 (approx GMT times)

ASIA

-Australia May private sector credit

-Japan May CPI, Tokyo June CPI

-Japan May unemployment rate

-Japan May household spending

-Japan May housing starts

-Japan May construction orders

-Singapore May money supply

-Singapore May commercial bank lending

-Singapore May credit card statistics

BENELUX

-Dutch May PPI

-Draka H1 trading update (before market opens)

EASTERN EUROPE

-Hungary May PPI

-Hungary April final foreign trade data

-Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany meets Audi chairman Rubert Stadler

EUROPEAN UNION/EURO AREA

-EU rules on RCI Banque buy of Renault Financial Services

-EU rules on proposed acquisition by Nestle SA of Novartis AG's medical

nutrition business

-Euro zone June prov HICP (0900 GMT). Forecast yr-on-yr +1.9 vs +1.9

-Euro zone June economic sentiment indicator (0900 GMT). Forecast 111.5 vs

111.9

-Euro zone June industrial confidence indicator. Forecast +6 vs +6

-Euro zone June consumer confidence indicator. Forecast -1 vs -1

-Euro zone June business climate indicator. Forecast 1.45 vs 1.53

FRANCE

-French June consumer confidence index (0640 GMT). Forecast -15 vs -14

-May PPI (0650 GMT). Forecast mth-on-mth +0.3 vs +0.5; yr-on-yr +1.9 vs 1.9

-Q1 GDP (second estimate) (0645 GMT). Forecast qtr-on-qtr +0.5 vs +0.5

-GFI Informatique AGM (postponed from May 21 after initial postponement

from May 11)

-Groupe Partouche H1 results

-French banking commission annual report

GERMANY

-May retail sales (0600 GMT). Forecast mth-on-mth (real) -0.7 vs +2.6

yr-on-yr (real) +1.8 vs -0.6

-Hannover Re investors day

-ZhongDe to publish IPO price range

GREECE

-Neochimiki AGM

-Lamda Detergent AGM

-Babis Vovos AGM

-Intracom Holdings AGM

ITALY

-Last trading day for BPVN, BPI before merger on July 1

-SIAS shareholder meeting on capital hike (1430 GMT)

-ERG shareholder meeting (0900 GMT)

-Italy, Tunisia industry ministers sign power interconnection agreement, Tunis (0930 GMT)

PORTUGAL

-May industrial output

SCANDINAVIA

-Finnish May industrial output (0600 GMT)

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