| Date |  3:09pm | Currency | Impact | | Detail | Actual | Forecast | Previous |
| Sun
May 4
| 6:45pm | NZD |  | Labor Cost Index q/q | | 0.7% | 0.7% | 1.1% |
| 7:30pm | AUD |  | Services PMI | | 47.3 | | 54.9  |
| All Day | JPY |  | Holiday: Children's Day | | | | |
| 8:30pm | AUD |  | TDMI Inflation Gauge m/m | | 0.5% | | 0.4% |
| 9:30pm | AUD | | House Price Index q/q | | 1.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| 11:00pm | NZD | | ANZ Commodity Price Index | | -0.3% | | 2.0% |
| Mon
May 5
| All Day | GBP | | Holiday: May Day | | | | |
| 4:30am | EUR | | Sentix Investor Confidence | | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| 7:40am | EUR | | ECB President Trichet Speaks | | | | |
| 8:50am | CAD | | BOC Deputy Governor Murray Speaks | | | | |
| 10:00am | USD | | ISM Non-Manufacturing Composite | | 52.0 | 49.1 | 49.6 |
| 10:00am | USD | | Fed Holds TAF Auction | | | | |
| All Day | JPY | | Holiday: Greenery Day Observed | | | | |
| 8:30pm | USD | | Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks | | | | |
| 9:30pm | AUD | | Trade Balance | | -2.74B | -2.90B | -3.26B |
| Tue
May 6
| 12:30am | AUD | | Monetary Policy Statement | | | | |
| 12:30am | AUD | | Cash Rate | | 7.25% | 7.25% | 7.25% |
| 1:45am | CHF | | CPI m/m | | 0.8% | 0.8% | 0.3% |
| 3:30am | EUR | | ECB President Trichet Speaks | | | | |
| 4:00am | EUR | | Services PMI (r) | | 52.0 | 51.8 | 51.8 |
| 4:30am | GBP | | Services PMI | | 50.4 | 51.7 | 52.1 |
| 5:00am | EUR | | PPI m/m | | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.7% |
| 8:30am | CAD | | Building Permits m/m | | -4.5% | 1.3% | 0.8% |
| 10:00am | CAD | | Ivey PMI | | 57.6 | 54.5 | 59.0 |
| 10:00am | USD | | Fed Publishes TAF Summary | | | | |
| 5:00pm | NZD | | RBNZ Financial Stability Report | | | | |
| 7:01pm | GBP | | Consumer Confidence Index | | 70 | 74 | 77 |
| 7:30pm | AUD | | Construction PMI | | 42.6 | | 47.7 |
| Wed
May 7
| 2:45am | EUR | | French Government Budget Balance | | -22.5B | | -22.7B |
| 2:45am | EUR | | French Trade Balance | | -4.8B | -3.0B | -2.8B |
| 4:30am | GBP | | Industrial Production m/m | | -0.5% | -0.1% | 0.3% |
| 4:30am | GBP | | Manufacturing Production m/m | | -0.5% | 0.0% | 0.4% |
| 5:00am | EUR | | Retail Sales m/m | | -0.4% | 0.1% | -0.2% |
| 5:28am | GBP | | BRC Shop Price Index y/y | | 1.2% | | 1.1% |
| 6:00am | EUR | | German Factory Orders m/m | | -0.6% | 0.3% | -0.6% |
| 8:30am | USD | | Nonfarm Productivity q/q (p) | | 2.2% | 1.5% | 1.8% |
| 8:30am | USD | | Unit Labor Costs q/q (p) | | 2.2% | 2.6% | 2.8% |
| 8:45am | USD | | Fed Governor Kroszner Speaks | | | | |
| 10:00am | USD | | Pending Home Sales m/m | | -1.0% | -1.0% | -2.8% |
| 10:30am | USD | | Crude Oil Inventories | | 5.7M | | 3.8M |
| 3:00pm | USD | | Consumer Credit m/m | | 15.3B | 6.3B | 6.5B |
| 6:45pm | NZD | | Unemployment Rate | | 3.6% | 3.5% | 3.4% |
| 6:45pm | NZD | | Employment Change q/q | | -1.3% | -0.1% | 0.9% |
| 7:01pm | GBP | | NIESR GDP Estimate | | 0.4% | | 0.4% |
| 9:30pm | AUD | | Employment Change | | 25.4K | 10.2K | 18.2K |
| 9:30pm | AUD | | Unemployment Rate | | 4.2% | 4.1% | 4.1% |
| Thu
May 8
| 1:45am | CHF | | Unemployment Rate | | 2.6% | 2.5% | 2.5% |
| 2:00am | EUR | | German Trade Balance | | 16.7B | 16.9B | 16.9B |
| 6:00am | EUR | | German Industrial Production m/m | | -0.5% | -0.5% | 0.2% |
| 7:00am | GBP | | Official Bank Rate | | 5.00% | 5.00% | 5.00% |
| 7:45am | EUR | | Minimum Bid Rate | | 4.00% | 4.00% | 4.00% |
| 8:15am | CAD | | Housing Starts | | 214K | 225K | 243K |
| 8:30am | EUR | | ECB Press Conference | | | | |
| 8:30am | USD | | Unemployment Claims | | 365K | 370K | 383K |
| 10:00am | USD | | Wholesale Inventories m/m | | -0.1% | 0.5% | 0.9% |
| 9:30pm | AUD | | RBA Monetary Policy Statement | | | | |
| Fri
May 9
| 1:00am | JPY | | Leading Index m/m | | 20.0% | 20.0% | 54.5% |
| 2:00am | EUR | | German WPI m/m | | 0.6% | 0.5% | 1.6% |
| 2:45am | EUR | | French Industrial Production m/m | | -0.8% | -0.4% | 0.5% |
| 4:00am | EUR | | ECB Lending Survey | | | | |
| 7:00am | CAD | | Employment Change | | 19.2K | 10.0K | 14.6K |
| 7:00am | CAD | | Unemployment Rate | | 6.1% | 6.0% | 6.0% |
| 8:30am | CAD | | Trade Balance | | 5.5B | 4.5B | 4.8B |
| 8:30am | USD | | Trade Balance | | -58.2B | -61.4B | -61.7B |
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