April 22
ALL TIMES IN EDT/GMT
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0830/1230: Labor Dept issues weekly Jobless Claims
0830/1230: USDA releases weekly Export Sales
0900/1300: Press briefing: IMF Managing Director Dominique
Strauss-Kahn
0945/1345: Speech by Canadian Finance Minister Jim
Flaherty at the Bertelsmann Foundation Conference
1000/1400: Freddie Mac issues weekly U.S. mortgage rates
1000/1400: U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency issues
February home price index
1000/1400: National Association of Realtors issues Existing
Home Sales for March
1000/1400: House Appropriations financial services and
general government subcommittee holds hearing, “Financial
Crisis and TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program).” Assistant
Treasury Secretary for Financial Stability Herbert Allison; and
TARP Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky
1000/1400: Senate Banking Committee hearing, “China’s
Exchange Rate Policy and Trade Imbalances”
1000/1400: U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency issues
February home price index
1000/1400: Freddie Mac issues weekly U.S. mortgage rates
1030/1430: EIA issues weekly U.S. underground natural gas
stocks
1100/1500: Treasury Dept makes weekly announcement of 3-
and 6-month bill sale offerings
1145/1545: Press briefing: World Bank President Robert
Zoellick
No set time: The Association of American Railroads issues
Weekly Traffic of Major Railroads
1315/1715: Bertelsmann Foundation conference panel, “Not
Forgotten: Recovery in Developing Nations” with WTO Director
General Pascal Lamy
After 1600/2000: ICI weekly money market mutual fund data
1600/2000 – Bertelsmann Foundation conference panel, “The
Women’s Perspective: a Missed Opportunity in Crisis?” with
Lithuania Finance Minister Ingrida Simonyte
1700/2100 – Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD),
speaks on “Climate Change and Competitiveness” at event hosted
by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies
1730/2130: Press briefing: Group of 24 Chairman
1730/2130: French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde
participates in “The New Rules: Reform in Transatlantic
Financial Markets” discussion hosted by the Atlantic Council
1730/2130: Omar Zakhilwal, Afghanistan minister of finance,
speaks on “Finding Solutions for Developing Afghanistan” at
event hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies
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