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Tuesday, Nov. 17
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hiroshisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.
0600 -- Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada holds regular press
conference.
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Wednesday, Nov. 18
COMPANIES
0730 -- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T) H1 results
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Thursday, Nov.19
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
-- Bank of Japan begins two-day policy board meeting
0500 -- OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria speaks at the
Japan National Press Club
0130 -- 20-year JGB auction
0345 -- 20-year JGB auction result
0600 -- President of the Japan Science and Technology Agency
Koichi Kitazawa to speak at the Foreign Press Center on Japan's
mid-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction target.
COMPANIES
0700 -- Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan to
release October book-to-bill ratio
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Friday, Nov. 20
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
-- Bank of Japan ends two-day policy board meeting, to be
followed by a news conference by BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa.
-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hiroshisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.
0700 -- Head of UNHCR Antonio Guterres to hold a news
conference at the Japan National Press Club, to speak about
conditions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
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Monday, Nov. 23
National Holiday, Labour Thanksgiving Day
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Tuesday, Nov. 24
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.
0500 -- Bank of Japan releases monthly economic report
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Wednesday, Nov. 25
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
2345* -- Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi
delivers a keynote speech at Financial Retail Strategy Conference
2350* -- Corporate services price index for October.
0130 -- Two-year JGB auction
0345 -- Two-year JGB auction results
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Thursday, Nov. 26
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
2350* -- Bank of Japan releases minutes of Oct. 30 meeting
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Friday, Nov. 27
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
2330* -- Nationwide consumer price index for October, Tokyo
CPI for November [JPCPI=ECI] [JPCPIT=ECI] ECONJP
2330* -- October household spending [JPALLS=ECI]
2330* -- October jobless rate and job offers-applicants ratio
[JPJOBA=ECI] [JPUNR=ECI]
2350* -- October retail sales [JPRSLS=ECI]
-- Cabinet meeting followed by news conferences from Finance
Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Strategy Minister Naoto Kan.
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Monday, Nov. 30
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
2350* -- October industrial output [JPIP1=ECI] ECONJP
0100 -- Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa meets local
business leaders in Nagoya, central Japan
0445 -- Shirakawa news conference
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Tuesday, Dec. 1
No major events scheduled
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Wednesday, Dec. 2
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
-- Laszlo Solyom, President of Hungary, begins five-day visit
to Japan.
2350* -- Monetary base for November [JPMONB=ECI] ECONJP
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Thursday, Dec. 3
ECONOMY/POLITICS/MARKETS
-- Laszlo Solyom, President of Hungary, to meet Prime
Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
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Friday, Dec. 4
No major events scheduled
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