ECONOMIC DATA

TODAY

Sydney The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in conversations with the Westpac chief executive, Gail Kelly, and the Telstra chairwoman, Catherine Livingstone, at Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon; the Bureau of Statistics international merchandise trade (confidential commodities list) for September; ABS housing finance for August; Yaron Brook, the president of The Ayn Rand Institute, to give speech Capitalism without Guilt: the Moral Case for Freedom; BrazIron to list on the ASX.

TOMORROW

Sydney The Reserve Bank credit/debit card data for August; National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for September; Australian Office of Financial Management tender for the issue of $250 million of Treasury Indexed Bonds; AB F Corporate and Business Banking Forum - day 1; QBE LMI and BIS Shrapnel launch Australian Housing Outlook 2010 report

Melbourne The Victorian Premier, John Brumby, to address Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

WEDNESDAY

Sydney ABS lending finance for August; ABS building activity for June; AOFM tender for the issue of $500 million in Treasury Bonds; Westpac-Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Sentiment; the Aristocrat Leisure CEO, Jamie Odell, to address American Chamber of Commerce luncheon; Fitch Ratings' Semi-Annual Corporate & Structured Finance Conference; AB F Corporate and Business Banking Forum - day 2.

Perth Paydirt 2010 Australian Nickel Conference - day 1.

Darwin Energy Resources of Australia Q3 operational review.

THURSDAY

Sydney Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Inflationary Expectations; Westpac-Melbourne Institute Survey of Consumer Unemployment Expectations; AOFM tender for the issue of $1 billion of Treasury notes; the chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank, Ralph Norris, to be keynote speaker at CEDA's CEO Vision Series; St George Mining to list on the ASX.

Brisbane Bank Of Queensland annual results.

Melbourne Rio Tinto third-quarter production report; Melbourne Mining Club luncheon with Ines Scotland, the managing director and CEO of Citadel Resource Group; Broadvector to list on the ASX.

Perth OZ Minerals third-quarter production report; Paydirt 2010 Australian Nickel Conference - day 2.

FRIDAY

Sydney AOFM tender for the issue of $700 million of Treasury Bonds.

OVERSEAS

TODAY

Washington Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor; Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president; Paul Volcker, the former US Federal Reserve chairman; and Zhou Xiaochuan, the People's Bank of China governor, participate in panel on how the current financial crisis has changed the role of central banks before the University of Virginia Mortimer Caplin economic conference.

TOMORROW

New York The German Bundesbank president, Axel Weber, in New York at Shadow Open Market Committee meeting; the ECB president, Jean Claude Trichet, at Economic Club of New York; the Brazilian Finance Minister, Guido Mantega, speech to the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce.

Washington The US Federal Reserve issues minutes from its meeting of September 21.

WEDNESDAY

Washington The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairman, Sheila Bair, participates in opening general session of an Urban Land Institute Conference.

THURSDAY

Frankfurt ECB publishes its monthly bulletin.

FRIDAY

Washington The US Treasury to release its currency report that analyses the exchange rate policies of foreign countries.

Tokyo The Bank of Japan governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, to make a speech at a meeting of credit associations.

Marrakesh, Morocco World Policy Conference on global governance. Conference to discuss implications on global governance from climate change, population growth, G20 and its future, role of BRIC countries in world governance and issues around Turkey and the Middle East. Speakers include the ECB president, Jean Claude Trichet and the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.

Boston The US Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, to speak before the "Revisiting Monetary Policy in a low Inflation Environment" conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.