Quick Overview

• Industrial new orders for the Euro zone rose 0.6% in February.
  Euro zone index of services rose from 51.6 to 51.8 in March.
  

• Australia's consumer price index rose 4.2%.
  

• Canada’s retail sales fell 0.7% MoM.
  

• The U.S. Department of Energy said:
  Supplies of crude oil rose 2.4 million barrels to 316.1 million barrels.
  Supplies of gasoline fell 3.2 million barrels
  Supplies of heating oil rose 700,000 barrels.
  Refinery use rose from 81.4% to 85.6% of capacity.
  Gasoline demand rose 0.9% YoY
  

• (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Sam's Club warehouse unit is restricting purchases of some types of rice to four bags a visit as prices reached a record in Chicago futures trading.
  

• Port of Shanghai's March container throughput rose 17.9% to a new monthly record of 2.39 million TEU, Logistics Week reported.