Daily Economic Calendar – June 16, 2017

Let’s see what news events could influence the FX markets on this week’s final trading day.
Japanese Yen traders will be monitoring closely the speech by Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda at 6:30 in the morning.

Italian trade balance figures for April follow at 8 o’clock. Surplus expanded sharply in March, gaining close to 200% from February’s level of 1.88 billion in the green.
Finalized Euro Zone Consumer Price Index for May will be available an hour later. According to flash report, Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 1.4% in May, down from 1.9% in April.
We head over the Atlantic as US housing starts and building permits are up next at a half past noon GMT. Both permits and starts declined in April, but a rebound is expected in this publication for May.
Preliminary University of Michigan Survey for June wraps up this rather short calendar at 2 PM. Consumer sentiment has continued to move along the high plateau established following Trump’s election. The final May figure was virtually unchanged from either earlier in May or the April reading.