INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
the rest of the world.
Retail sales, investment, credit and industrial production data for January and February are all scheduled for
The most important indicators of the week are retail sales for January, which are expected to rebound from December declines, and the
consumer price index, whose growth is seen holding steady at 1.6 percent
their eye-popping plunge, which should demonstrate that consumers remain the dominant force behind economic growth
sales data arrive on Thursday with the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg pointing to a 8.1 percent increase from the
previous year, down from 9 percent in the prior report
Industrial production, released the same day, is also seen slowing to 5.5 percent from 6.2 percent
Elsewhere in the region, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda will speak on Friday, after he and his board meet to decide on monetary
industrial production, exports and overseas economies.
Europe, the Middle East and AfricaDays after the ECB acted to support demand,
industrial production data for January from Germany and the euro region will provide a glimpse of the health of the economy in the first
quarter, and may perhaps shed further light on the extent of weakness induced by international trade tensions
Scheduled for release on Wednesday, industrial production in the region will grow 0.5 percent after falling 0.9 percent, according to a
Bloomberg survey of economists
Philip Hammond is scheduled to deliver the spring budget statement.
In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in full-on campaign mode as
he looks to energize supporters ahead of municipal elections on March 31
In Ecuador, the IMF executive board is expected to approve a multi-billion dollar loan on Monday or Tuesday, while in Mexico the industrial
production statistics published on Wednesday will offer another indicator of how much activity has cooled since President Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador took power.
