Week’s main events (March 18 – March 22)
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) will hold a very important meeting on Tuesday, where there is more than a 50% chance that the BoJ will finally exit the negative interest rate policy. Immediately after this meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will meet to plan further monetary policy plans. The RBA is expected to keep the rate unchanged, but the policy bias may remain hawkish. The Federal Reserve (Fed) will meet on Wednesday. No changes are expected at this meeting, but any clues as to the central bank’s outlook for rate cuts will influence the market. On Thursday, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and the Bank of England (BoE) will hold monetary policy meetings. No changes are expected, so the focus will be on the policymakers’ bias for the next meetings. The Central Bank of Norway (Norges Bank) will meet this week, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) will decide on the interest rate, and the UK, Canada, and Japan will release updated inflation data.
- – China Industrial Production (m/m) at 04:00 (GMT+2);
- – China Retail Sales (m/m) at 04:00 (GMT+2);
- – China Unemployment Rate (m/m) at 04:00 (GMT+2);
- – Eurozone Consumer Price Index (m/m) at 12:00 (GMT+2);
- – Eurozone Trade Balance (m/m) at 12:00 (GMT+2).
- – Japan BoJ Interest Rate Decision at 04:30 (GMT+2);
- – Japan BoJ Monetary Policy Statement at 04:30 (GMT+2);
- – Australia RBA Interest Rate Decision at 05:30 (GMT+2);
- – Australia RBA Rate Statement at 05:30 (GMT+2);
- – German ZEW Economic Sentiment (m/m) at 12:00 (GMT+2);
- – Eurozone ZEW Economic Sentiment (m/m) at 12:00 (GMT+2);
- – US Building Permits (m/m) at 14:30 (GMT+2);
- – Canada Consumer Price Index (m/m) at 14:30 (GMT+2).
- – China PBoC Loan Prime Rate at 03:15 (GMT+2);
- – UK Consumer Price Index (m/m) at 09:00 (GMT+2);
- – UK Producer Price Index (m/m) at 09:00 (GMT+2);
- – Eurozone ECB President Lagarde Speaks at 10:45 (GMT+2);
- – US Crude Oil Reserves (w/w) at 16:30 (GMT+2);
- – US FOMC Economic Projections at 20:00 (GMT+2);
- – US Fed Interest Rate Decision at 20:00 (GMT+2);
- – US FOMC Statement at 20:00 (GMT+2);
- – US FOMC Press Conference at 20:30 (GMT+2);
- – New Zealand GDP (q/q) at 23:45 (GMT+2).
- – Australia Manufacturing PMI (m/m) at 00:00 (GMT+2);
- – Australia Services PMI (m/m) at 00:00 (GMT+2);
- – Japan Trade Balance (m/m) at 01:50 (GMT+2);
- – Australia Unemployment Rate (m/m) at 02:30 (GMT+2);
- – Japan Manufacturing PMI (m/m) at 02:30 (GMT+2);
- – Japan Services PMI (m/m) at 02:30 (GMT+2);
- – Hong Kong Inflation Rate (m/m) at 10:30 (GMT+2);
- – Switzerland SNB Interest Rate Decision at 10:30 (GMT+2);
- – Switzerland SNB Monetary Policy Assessment at 10:30 (GMT+2);
- – German Manufacturing PMI (m/m) at 10:30 (GMT+2);
- – German Services PMI (m/m) at 10:30 (GMT+2);
- – Switzerland SNB Press Conference at 11:00 (GMT+2);
- – Norway Interest Rate Decision at 11:00 (GMT+2);
- – Eurozone Manufacturing PMI (m/m) at 11:00 (GMT+2);
- – Eurozone Services PMI (m/m) at 11:00 (GMT+2);
- – U.K. Manufacturing PMI (m/m) at 11:30 (GMT+2);
- – U.K. Services PMI (m/m) at 11:30 (GMT+2);
- – UK BoE Interest Rate Decision at 14:00 (GMT+2);
- – UK BoE MPC Meeting Minutes at 14:00 (GMT+2);
- – U.S. Initial Jobless Claims (w/w) at 14:30 (GMT+2);
- – U.S. Manufacturing PMI (m/m) at 15:45 (GMT+2);
- – U.S. Services PMI (m/m) at 15:45 (GMT+2);
- – U.S. Existing Home Sales (m/m) at 16:00 (GMT+2);
- – U.S. Natural Gas Storage (w/w) at 16:30 (GMT+2);
- – New Zealand Trade Balance (q/q) at 23:45 (GMT+2).
- – Japan National Core CPI (m/m) at 01:30 (GMT+2);
- – UK Retail Sales (m/m) at 09:00 (GMT+2);
- – German Ifo Business Climate Index (m/m) at 11:00 (GMT+2);
- – Canada Retail Sales (m/m) at 14:30 (GMT+2);
- – US Fed Chair Powell Speaks at 15:00 (GMT+2);
- – US FOMC Member Bostic Speaks at 22:00 (GMT+2).
by 2024.03.18
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