The Week Ahead

By Barry Ritholtz - March 15th, 2010, 1:30AM

Outlook: The Week Ahead in U.S. News

MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo has a preview of what will figure into the business and financial headlines in the coming week.

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Asia’s Week Ahead

Bank of Japan’s policy decision is a major highlight next week, along with the release of Reserve Bank of Australia’s policy-meeting minutes. MarketWatch’s Andria Cheng reports.

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Europe’s Week Ahead: Bulgari, Inditex, Unicredit

Bulgari, Inditex, Unicredit earnings in focus. On the economic front, ZEW sentiment survey from Germany, Bank of England minutes.

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"Overall household indebtedness is up from $7 trillion to almost $10 trillion since 2000. On this sum, we estimate, the American consumer has an annual interest bill of more than $500 billion; a sum, by the way, that vastly exceeds his current income growth." —Kurt Richebacher

Macro Notes

Another important macro weekend awaits
Peter Boockvar

"The Greek offer is not sufficient and they have to go away to come up with a revised plan," said a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry. The Greeks must first have a plan that satisfies the Germans which this comment states they clearly don't yet and then the Greek Parliament will vote on it this weekend. This said, whatever package gets voted on in Greece is basically an up or down vote on euro membership so we are entering another uncertain weekend for global markets. A failed vote will likely lead to a hard default which may be what...

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