Economic calendar

GMT Event Actual Previous
Tuesday, May 06
22:45 Labour Cost Index (YoY) 2.5% 2.9%
22:45 Labour Cost Index (QoQ) 0.4% 0.6%
22:45 Participation Rate 70.8% 70.9% Revised from 71.0%
22:45 Unemployment Rate 5.1% 5.1%
22:45 Employment Change 0.1% -0.2% Revised from -0.1%
23:00 AiG Construction PMI -7.9 -19.3
23:00 AiG Manufacturing PMI -26.5 -29.7
23:00 AiG Industry Index -15.0 -22.2
Wednesday, May 07
07:00 Foreign Currency Reserves 703B 726B
08:30 S&P Global/CIPS Construction PMI 46.6 46.4
11:00 MBA Mortgage Applications -4.2%
14:30 EIA Crude Oil Stocks Change -2.696M
18:00 Fed Monetary Policy Statement
18:00 Fed Interest Rate Decision 4.5%
18:30 FOMC Press Conference
19:00 Consumer Credit Change $-0.81B
23:01 RICS Housing Price Balance 2%
Thursday, May 08
05:45 Unemployment Rate s.a (MoM) 2.8%
06:00 Halifax House Prices (MoM) -0.5%
06:00 Halifax House Prices (YoY/3m) 2.8%
11:00 BoE Interest Rate Decision 4.50%
11:00 Monetary Policy Report
11:00 BoE Monetary Policy Report
11:00 BoE MPC Vote Rate Unchanged 8
11:00 BoE MPC Vote Rate Cut 1
11:00 BoE Minutes
11:00 BoE MPC Vote Rate Hike 0
11:30 BoE's Governor Bailey speech
12:30 Initial Jobless Claims 4-week average 226K
12:30 Initial Jobless Claims 241K
12:30 Continuing Jobless Claims 1.916M
12:30 Unit Labor Costs 2.2%
12:30 Nonfarm Productivity 1.5%
14:00 Wholesale Inventories 0.5%
14:00 Financial System Review
14:30 EIA Natural Gas Storage Change 107B
15:30 4-Week Bill Auction 4.24%
17:00 30-Year Bond Auction 4.813%
Friday, May 09
08:40 BoE's Governor Bailey speech
10:15 Fed's Williams speech

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