A calm week ahead of us with thin liquidity on Easter Monday will bring RBA meeting, ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI and employment data from Canada. Vaccine roll-out developments and covid related news will be on the minds of investors.
NFP and preliminary inflation data from Europe will be the highlights of the week. US president Biden will deliver speech on Wednesday regarding the economy during which the new infrastructure stimulus worth around $3 trillion should be presented. This will be a shortened trading week as we will have Good Friday which, coupled with quarter-end rebalancing, will lower liquidity in the markets.
Preliminary March PMI data will highlight the week followed by inflation and spending data from the US.
Fed, BOE and BOJ meetings, accompanied by consumption data from US will steer the markets in the week to come.
ECB and BOC meetings coupled with inflation data from the US will mark the week ahead us.
RBA meeting followed by NFP data on Friday will highlight the first week of March. Eyes will be on bond market developments as well.
Second reading of US Q4 GDP along with PCE inflation data and RBNZ meeting will be the highlight news of the week while investors will be focused more on the US stimulus package. Stimulus is to be voted on in the House.
Two central banks, BOE and RBA, meet this week but markets will focus more on NFP numbers on Friday as well as preliminary Q4 GDP data from EU and virus and vaccine related news.
The week ahead of us will have Fed meeting and preliminary Q4 GDP readings from the US, Germany and France as well as data on inflation and spending from the US.
Three central bank meetings (ECB, BOC and BOJ) as well as preliminary PMI data for January and China’s Q4 GDP will be the main economic events of the week. They may be overshadowed by the happenings at the Capitol for President-elect Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday January 20.