Canadian CPI and US Markit PMIs headline Thanksgiving week – Rabobank

Analysts at Rabobank enlist key economic events slated for release in the Thanksgiving holiday-shortened week ahead.

Key Quotes:

“Today’s trade data from Japan saw a much larger deficit than expected as imports surged nearly 20% y-o-y and exports were up just 8.2%. I think we will be rather busy with Brexit for the rest of the day.

Tomorrow we get RBNZ minutes and US housing starts; Wednesday has US durable goods and existing home sales;

Thursday has Japanese CPI and is also US Thanksgiving, and then Friday has the consumption-fest that is Black Friday, along with Canadian CPI and US Markit PMIs.

Saturday then has a referendum in Taiwan on several issues, including whether it will enter the Olympics calling itself just “Taiwan” from now on. In the present atmosphere, that matters more than you might think.”