This week’s currency news 05 Jun 2012

This week’s main news for currency markets is likely to be the Bank of England’s Quantitatve Easing programme on Thursday lunch time. Any extension to the asset purchase programme is likely to be bad news for sterling.

Wednesday 6th
0130 – Australian GDP
1000 – Eurozone GDP
1245 – ECB interest rate decision & press conference

Thursday 7th
0230 – Australian unemployments
0645 – Swiss unemployment
0815 – Swiss consumer inflation
1200 – UK interest rate & quantitative easing
1500 – Speech: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke

Friday 8th
0050 – Japanese GDP & trade balance
0230 – Australian trade balance
0700 – German trade balance
1330 – US trade balance
1330 – Canadian unemployment rate