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Central bank meetings coming up
Hello. Welcome to IGTV. This is your special look ahead to the week starting 22 January 2024. At any moment now, we’ve got a special guest lined up for you, Tom Sosnoff from Tasty Live, part of IG Group. Let’s just take you across the very heavy calendar items next week, starting with China, got loan prime rates out of there on Monday.
Later on in the week, it’s punctuated really by quite a few central bank meetings. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) interest rate decision a key one to watch if you are trading in yen.
Also, the quarterly outlook report might give us some sense of where the currency cross, the yen versus the US dollar, is going.
Australia business confidence numbers due
And then look out for business confidence numbers out of Australia as well, public sector net borrowing out of the UK and consumer confidence numbers out of the euro zone, all of those likely to give us some volatility in the FX markets.
From the US, we’re looking out for crude oil inventories. It’s a big week for interest rate decisions. Canada on deck on Wednesday with its interest rate decision. We also have trade balance numbers and those purchasing managers indexes (PMIs) out of the euro zone, the UK and the US as well.
On Thursday, it’s the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) turn. It’s got a rate decision. What they say about timing and inflation is perhaps more key than if anything happens at all.
ECB not to be swayed by Fed’s action
Ahead of that, Christine Lagarde in Davos mentioning that the ECB is keeping a close eye on inflation rather than any sort of decision based on what the Fed does. In Germany, we’ve got the IFA business climate index.
And on Friday, it’s really about the Bank of Japan minutes and consumer confidence figures out of the UK and Germany and home sales of the US and also consumer data, particularly income and spending out of the US.
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