AFX economic and business calendar to Thursday Aug 24.

(From AFX Europe (Focus))

LONDON (AFX) - Key items expected to Thursday Aug 24

FRIDAY AUG 11

ASIA

-Australia June balance of payments

-Australia June lending finance

-Japan preliminary April-June GDP

-Japan revised June industrial output

-Bank of Japan Aug economic report

-Bank of Japan to announce policy meeting outcome; governor Toshihiko Fukui

holds news conference

-China July CPI

-Hang Seng index quarterly review

BENELUX

-Dutch June retail sales (0730 GMT)

EUROPEAN UNION/EURO AREA

-EU rules on acquisition by Fiat SpA's Iveco International Trade Finance SA

of Austria's AFIN leasing AG

Infrastructure Management Inc and Gicsi of Associated British Ports

FRANCE

-Q2 GDP 1st estimate (0640 GMT). Forecast qtr on qtr +0.8 vs +0.5; yr on yr

+2.3 vs +1.5

-July CPI (0645 GMT). Forecast mth on mth -0.1 vs 0.0; yr on yr +1.9,

unchanged

-July HICP. Forecast mth on mth -0.2 vs 0.0; yr on yr +2.2, unchanged

-July large store retail prices (0650 GMT)

-GDF Q2 sales (before market opens)

GERMANY

-ThyssenKrupp Q3 results. Forecast net profit 404-470 mln eur vs 154 mln

-Salzgitter analysts conference

-Fraport July traffic figures

-German final July CPI

ITALY

-Italy preliminary Q2 GDP (0800 GMT). Forecast qtr-on-qtr +0.6, unchanged;

yr-on-yr +1.5, unchanged

-Italy July final CPI (0900 GMT). Forecast mth-on-mth +0.3 vs +0.1; yr-on-yr

+2.3 vs +2.4

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