Top economic events to May 19

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Top economic Events to May 19, 2014

TUESDAY, MAY 6 BRUSSELS - Meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN). PARIS - OECD publishes spring economic outlook containing forecasts and detailed analysis for member countries and major non-member economies. OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria and Deputy Secretary-General Rintaro Tamaki will present the Outlook on the second day of the annual OECD Forum - 0900 GMT. LONDON - Fathom Monetary Policy Forum in London - 0800 GMT. NEW YORK - Federal Reserve Board Governor Jeremy Stein speaks before the Money Marketeers of New York University in New York.

SYDNEY - Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds interest rate meeting.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7

WASHINGTON - Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) meet in Washington. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will attend. CHICAGO - 50th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition (to May 09). Speakers:- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans and Federal Reserve Board Governor Daniel Tarullo. ABUJA - World Economic Forum on Africa will be held in Abuja (to May 9). LONDON - Bank of England (BoE) holds Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting (to May 08). TOKYO - Bank of Japan will release the minutes of April monetary policy meeting - 2350 GMT.

THURSDAY, MAY 8 BERLIN - WDR Europa Forum 2014 on "What kind of Europe do we want? - Perspectives of a common EU policy". Speakers:- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, EU Commission President Barroso, IMF Director Christine Lagarde, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and European Parliament President Martin Schulz. NEW YORK - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser speaks on monetary policy before the Council on Foreign Relations - 1200 GMT. ST. LOUIS, United States - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard gives welcome remarks before "The Balance Sheets of Younger Americans: Is the American Dream at Risk?" Research Symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1200 GMT. BRUSSELS - ECB Governing Council meeting, followed by interest rate announcement and news conference. LONDON - Bank of England (BoE) announces interest rate decision. OSLO - Norwegian central bank's policy-setting executive board holds interest rate meeting.

FRIDAY, MAY 9 ST. PAUL, United States - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota gives keynote address for a recognition event before the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans 2014 Asian Heritage Dinner. NEW ORLEANS, United States - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher speaks before the Louisiana Bankers Association 2014 Convention in New Orleans - 1600 GMT. HELSINKI - ECB Governing Council member Erkki Liikanen appears at an event at the University of Helsinki. SYDNEY - RBA Assistant Governor for Financial Markets Guy Debelle participates in a panel at Women in Banking and Finance (WIBF) Business Series Lunch. LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Swiss National Bank (SNB) Governing Board Member Jean-Pierre Danthine speaks in Lausanne.

SUNDAY, MAY 11 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart speaks on the economic outlook before the American Business Council of Dubai and the Dubai International Financial Center - 0530 GMT. BEIJING - Bank of England Financial Policy Committee member Donald Kohn speaks in Beijing on " The Future of China's Macro prudential Regulation: A comparison between UK's FPC and US's FSOC Systems".

MONDAY, MAY 12

PHILADELPHIA, United States - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser gives opening remarks before the "Reinventing Older Communities: Bridging Growth and Opportunity" conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1600 GMT. VIENNA - 42nd Economics Conference - Toward a European Banking Union: Taking Stock (to May 13). Speakers:- Central Bank of Austria Governor Ewald Nowotny, ECB Vice-President Vitor Constancio, Eurogroup Working Group President Thomas Wieser and IMF Assistant Director Giovanni Dell'Ariccia. SYDNEY - RBA Head of Financial Stability Department Luci Ellis speaks at the Thomson Reuters 2nd Australian Regulatory Summit in Sydney - 2330 GMT. TUESDAY, MAY 13

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart speaks on the economic outlook before the American Business Group of Riyadh - 0430 GMT. CHARLOTTE, United States - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker gives welcome remarks before the "Implementation and Impact of Post-Crisis Regulations" 2014 Credit Markets Symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 1430 GMT. PORTOROZ, Slovenia - Slovenia Finance Minister Uros Cufer expected to speak at a financial conference in Portoroz. TORONTO - British Columbia's Finance Minister Michael de Jong gives speech to the Economic Club of Canada - 1545 GMT. SYDNEY - Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey will deliver the 2014-15 budget in the House of Representatives.

THURSDAY, MAY 15 NEW YORK - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley gives welcome remarks before the "Filling the Gaps: a Summit on Small Business Credit Innovations" hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1230 GMT. WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks at National Small Business Week event in Washington. SYDNEY - RBA Head of Financial Stability Department Luci Ellis speaks at Citibank Residential Housing Conference in Sydney. BERLIN - 2014 Asia Europe Economic Forum in Berlin (to May 16). ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio speaks at the event. TOKYO - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at a seminar hosted by Columbia University on "overcoming deflation" - 0425 GMT.

FRIDAY, MAY 16 LITTLE ROCK, United States - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard speaks on the U.S. economy and monetary policy before the Arkansas Day with the Bank Commissioner event hosted by the Arkansas Bankers Association in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States - 1550 GMT.

MONDAY, MAY 19 DALLAS, United States - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher participates in panel, "The Role of the Federal Reserve" before the Bush Institute conference on monetary policy in Dallas - 1610 GMT.

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