Economic Calendar Mar 14 – Mar 18, 2022
Monday March 14
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian construction investment for January.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian new motor vehicle sales for January. Estimate is a rise of 0.5 per cent year-over-year.
Earnings include: Hardwoods Distribution Inc.; Pollard Banknote Ltd.
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Tuesday March 15
China industrial production, retail sales and fixed asset investment
Euro zone industrial production
(8:15 a.m. ET) Canadian housing starts for February. The Street is forecasting an annualized rate increase of 2.4 per cent.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s manufacturing sales and new orders for January. Estimates are month-over-month increases of 1.2 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. PPI final demand for February. Consensus is a rise of 0.9 per cent from January and up 9.9 per cent year-over-year.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. Empire State Manufacturing Survey for March.
(9 a.m. ET) Canadian existing home sales for February. Estimate is a year-over-year decline of 7 per cent with average prices rising 20.5 per cent.
(9 a.m. ET) Canada’s MLS Home Price Index for February. Estimate is a rise of 28.0 per cent from the same period a year ago.
Earnings include: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.; Intertape Polymer Group Inc.
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Wednesday March 16
Japan trade balance and industrial production
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s CPI for February. Consensus is a rise of 0.9 per cent from January and up 5.5 per cent year-over-year.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian wholesale trade for January. Estimate is an increase of 3.5 per cent from December.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. retail sales for February. The Street is projecting a rise of 0.4 per cent from January.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. import prices for February. Consensus is a month-over-month increase of 1.5 per cent and up 11.2 per cent year-over-year.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. NAHB Housing Market Index for March.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. business inventories for January.
(2 p.m. ET) U.S. Fed announcement with chair Jerome Powell’s press briefing to follow.
Earnings include: Largo Resources Ltd.; Osisko Mining Corp.
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Thursday March 17
Japan core machine orders
Euro zone CPI
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. weekly initial jobless claims. Estimate is 218,000, down 9,000 from the previous week.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. housing starts for February. Consensus is annualized rate rise of 3.8 per cent.
(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. building permits for February.
(9:15 a.m. ET) U.S. industrial production and capacity utilization for February.
Earnings include: Badger Infrastructure Solutions Ltd.; Canoe EIT Income Fund; Endeavour Mining Corp.; MDA Ltd.; Nexus REIT; North West Company Inc.; Power Corp. of Canada
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Friday March 18
Japan CPI
Euro zone trade deficit and labour costs
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian retail sales for January. The Street is projecting a rise of 2.4 per cent from December.
(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s New Housing Price Index for February. Estimate is a rise of 2.5 per cent from January and 12.5 per cent year-over-year.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. existing home sales for February. Consensus is an annualized rate drop of 5.0 per cent.
(10 a.m. ET) U.S. leading indicator for February. Estimate is a rise of 0.3 per cent from January.