Economic Calendar for: Friday 28th April 2006
| Time GMT | event | expect | previous |
| 05.00 | Japan March Housing Starts yr/yr | 7.4% | 13.7% |
| 05.00 | Japan Annualised Housing Starts | 1.271m | 1.334m |
| 05.00 | Japan March Construction Orders yr/yr | 3.5% | 27.4% |
| 06.00 | German March Retail Sales mth/mth | 0.4% | -1.1% |
| 06.00 | German March Retail Sales yr/yr | 1.3% | 1.1% |
| 06.40 | France April Consumer Confidence Indicator | -26 | -26 |
| 08.00 | Euro-zone March M3 s.adj ( 3mth av.) | 7.9% | 7.6% |
| 08.00 | Euro-zone March M3 s.adj yr/yr | 7.9% | 8.0% |
| 09.00 | Euro-zone April Business Climate Indicator | | 0.8 |
| 09.00 | Euro-zone April Industrial Confidence | -1 | -1 |
| 09.00 | Euro-zone April Consumer Confidence | -11 | -11 |
| 09.00 | Euro-zone April Economic Confidence | 103.3 | 103.5 |
| 09.00 | Euro-zone April Services Confidence | | 15 |
| 09.00 | Euro-zone April CPI Estimate yr/yr | 2.3% | 2.2% |
| 09.30 | UK April GfK Consumer Confidence Survey | -6 | -7 |
| 09.30 | Switzerland April KOF Leading Indicator | 1.32 | 1.30 |
| 11.00 | Swiss National Bank's ( SNB ) speaks |
| 11.00 | ECB's Gonzalez-Paramo speaks |
| 11.30 | Fed's Bies speaks |
| 12.30 | Canada February Gross Domestic Product mth/mth | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| 12.30 | Canada Average Weekly Earnings mth/mth | 0.3% | 0.9% |
| 12.30 | US 1st qtr GDP Annualised | 4.7% | 1.7% |
| 12.30 | US 1st qtr GDP Price Index | 2.8% | 3.5% |
| 12.30 | US 1st qtr Personal Consumption | 3.0% | 0.9% |
| 12.30 | US 1st qtr Employment Cost Index | | |
| 13.45 | US April University of Michigan Confidence Survey | 89.0 | 89.2 |
| 14.00 | US April Chicago Purchasing Managers Report | 58.3 | 60.4 |
