generally quiet data day
CANADA
leading indicators fell much more than the expected 0.8% in March, declining 1.3%; furthermore, February was downwardly revised to -1.3% from a 1.1% decline; money supply continued to be the lone positive contributor; however a number of components slowed their pace of negative contributions, but were overwhelmed by the new orders component which, thanks to autos, deteriorated markedly; the index is now down 5.2% YoY and 6.1% from its August peak
retail sales and MPR tomorrow
U.S.
claims and existing home sales tomorrow; not much today
INTERNATIONAL
Alistair Darling is predicting a contraction in U.K. GDP of 3.5% this year, and a resumption of growth in 2010, though of just 1.25%, followed by 3.5% growth in 2011
jobless claims in England nearly halved to 74k in March from 137k, though the ILO unemployment rate increased as expected to 6.7% from 6.5%
Japan merchandise trade exports were down 46% YoY through March, a bit better than the -49% through February, while trade imports were down 37% YoY in March vs. 43% the previous month
China wholesale prices are down 6.6% YoY
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