The week ahead: A super Fat Tuesday new year?

Laissez les bons temps rouler! With America still recovering from its bacchanalia of football, wings and Taylor Swift, Mardi Gras season in New Orleans reaches its peak this week. On Feb. 13, the party wraps the same day investors are hoping the market will toss them some beads with inflation data that isn't too fat. Investors across the pond hope their hearts won't be broken Feb. 14 when U.K. consumer price index is revealed.

Asia is also in party mode, as much of the region is celebrating the Lunar New Year. The festivities typically bring a surge in consumer spending as tens of millions of people travel from cities to their hometowns in rural areas to spend the holidays with family, which investors in China hope will boost consumer spending and sentiment.

• Blue Owl Capital will announce its earnings Feb. 9.
• TPG will show its cards Feb. 13.

• On Feb. 13, U.S. consumer price index data for January will be released.
• Feb. 15 will bring core retail sales numbers.
• Initial jobless claims will be announced Feb. 15.
• On Feb. 16, the producer price index for January will be available.

• The House Education and the Workforce Committee has a hearing slated for Feb. 15 titled, "Protecting American savers and retirees from DOL's regulatory overreach."

• On Feb. 13, the New Hampshire Retirement System board of trustees will meet to, among other things, vote on two anti-ESG bills proposed by legislators. The trustees' legislative committee has recommended opposing the bills, including the House bill that would make it a felony to knowingly invest taxpayer money using ESG criteria. A House committee already has recommended that the full House of Representatives reject the bill. A different anti-ESG bill remains pending in a state senate committee.
• The quarterly meeting of the New York State Deferred Compensation board will be Feb. 16.

• The U.K. CPI comes out Feb. 14, with fourth-quarter gross domestic product data coming the following day.

• Feb. 14 will see the release of Japan GDP for the fourth quarter.
• Also on Feb. 14, more than 200 million eligible voters in Indonesia will vote for their new president, vice president and other government representatives. Incumbent President Joko Widodo is unable to seek a third term, so asset managers will be keeping an eye on the new government's plans for the country.