Economic Calendar: March 13 – March 17

Monday March 13

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s national balance sheet and financial flow accounts for Q4.

Earnings include: Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.; Cardinal Energy Ltd.; Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

Tuesday March 14

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian manufacturing sales for January. Estimate is a rise of 3.9 per cent with new orders up 4.5 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. CPI for February. The Street expects an increase of 0.4 per cent from January and 6.0 per cent year-over-year. In January, CPI rose 0.5% from the previous month.

Earnings include: Terrascend Corp.

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Wednesday March 15

China industrial production, retail sales and fixed asset investment

(8:15 a.m. ET) Canadian housing starts for February. Estimate is an annualized rate rise of 2.2 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. PPI for February. Consensus is a rise of 0.3 per cent from January and up 5.4 per cent year-over-year.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. retail sales for February. The Street is forecasting a rise of 0.1 per cent from January.

(9 a.m. ET) Canadian existing home sales for February. Estimate is a year-over-year decline of 37.0 per cent with average prices falling 18.5 per cent.

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. NAHB Housing Market Index for March.

Earnings include: Badger Infrastructure Solutions Ltd.; Converge Technology Solutions Corp.; Fortuna Silver Mines Inc.; Franco-Nevada Corp.; Lennar Corp.; Nexus REIT; Savaria Corp.

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Thursday March 16

Japan trade deficit, core machine orders and industrial production

ECB Monetary Policy meeting

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian wholesale trade sales for January. Estimate is an increase of 0.3 per cent from December.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. initial jobless claims for week of March. Estimate is 210,000, down 1,000 from the previous week.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. housing starts for February. Consensus is an annualized rate rise of 0.1 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. building permits for February. The Street expects an increase of 0.8 per cent on an annualized rate basis.

Earnings include: Adobe Systems Inc.; Centamin PLC; Dollar General Corp.; Canoe EIT Income Fund; Empire Company Ltd.; FedEx Corp.; North West Company Inc.; Power Corp. of Canada; Premium Brands Holdings Corp.

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Friday March 17

Euro zone CPI

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian industrial product and raw materials price indexes for February. Estimates are month-over-month increases of 0.6 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively.

(9:15 a.m. ET) U.S. industrial production for February. The Street expects an increase of 0.5 per cent from January with capacity utilization rising 0.2 per cent to 78.5 per cent.

Earnings include: Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp.; Ballard Power Systems Inc.; Filo Mining Corp.; Lithium Americas Corp.; Orla Mining Ltd.