Focus of the Week

What’s in focus this week? Key economic events and potential trading opportunities coming up.

Focus of the Week

What’s in focus this week? Key economic events and potential trading opportunities coming up.

Focus of the Week

What’s in focus this week? Key economic events and potential trading opportunities coming up.

Fed is data-dependent

This week saw Jerome Powell affirm what markets knew; namely that the recent strong US data indicates the Fed may well need to speed up the pace of rate hikes.…

RBNZ rate decision next week

On February 22 at 01:00 GMT, the RBNZ will announce its interest rate decision. At the last meeting, the RBNZ took a very hawkish tone as it recognised that annual…

Awaiting US CPI

This week will be the hotly awaited US CPI print. Since the really strong NFP print from February 3 Fed expectations have changed. The Terminal rate is now projected to…

Canadian jobs data

At the last BoC interest rate meeting it became clear that the BoC may have now had its very last rate hike for this year. Headline inflation fell from June’s…

Oil eyes OPEC+ and the Fed

Oil markets have reasons for higher prices in principle. China’s re-opening should stimulate demand, OPEC is expected to keep production levels unchanged, hopes of a dovish Fed, and the EU…

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