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Week ahead, 2026-11-09 to 2026-11-15.
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Week ahead, 2026-11-02 to 2026-11-08.
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- Results of the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters for the fourth quarter of 2026 — European Central Bank — press
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This survey directly influences ECB policy deliberati…
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- Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates) — European Central Bank — press
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Non-rate ECB decisions can move euro…
A headline CPI number can move rates and FX on its own, but the component detail often tells a different story. Energy and food swings can push the headline well away from core, and the first-release figure may later be revised when seasona…
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- Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by The Bank of Nova Scotia — Federal Reserve — all press releases
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Fed approvals for foreign banks shape the compet…
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- Bank of England sets out approach to tokenised collateral in central clearing — Bank of England — news
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Changes to what qualifies as collateral in central clearing touch t…
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- ECB President Lagarde to step down on 7 February 2027 — European Central Bank — press
- Christine Lagarde to step down as ECB president in February — Financial Times
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ECB …
When a central bank pauses, the market still has to price what comes next, and the signals often pull in different directions. Forward guidance, the language about the path of policy, can say one thing while the latest inflation or labour p…
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- Interest Rate Announcement and Monetary Policy Report — Bank of Canada
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Bank of Canada rate decisions directly influence the Canadian dollar and domestic bond yields, with…
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- Remit for the Monetary Policy Committee - October 2026 — Bank of England — news
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The MPC remit is the constitutional backbone of UK monetary policy, so shifts in its wordi…
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- Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement — Federal Reserve — monetary policy press
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FOMC statements directly influence expectations for the federal funds rate, which transmit…
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- Major Economic Indicators Latest Numbers — BLS — latest numbers
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Weak payrolls can shift rate-cut expectations, which ripples through bond yields, the dollar, equity valua…
When a central bank decision and a major data print fall within the same hour, the order of events can change how the whole window reads. I usually start by pinning each release to its exact UTC time from the official source, then noting wh…
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- Indicators for Core CPI — Bank of Japan — what's new
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This data touches yen currency pairs, Japanese government bonds and Asia-Pacific equity indices; shifts in Bank of Ja…
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- Services Producer Price Index (Sept.) — Bank of Japan — what's new
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The SPPI is a leading indicator of durable inflation in Japan and directly influences expectations for …
When a currency pair moves sharply, it helps to ask whether the move is driven by the underlying policy-rate and yield-curve story or by the session it happened in. Two-year yield differentials between the relevant central banks tend to be …
Real yields and the dollar often get lumped together as "tighter conditions," but they can pull crypto in different directions for a while. A rising real yield raises the opportunity cost of holding assets that pay nothing, while a stronger…
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- Bank of Canada interest rate announcement and release of the Monetary Policy Report — Bank of Canada
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Bank of Canada decisions directly affect the Canadian dollar, domesti…
Week ahead, 2026-10-26 to 2026-11-01.
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- Nothing is entered on the ZenithFX calendar for this week yet. Add what you are watching below and the desk will pick it up.
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The weekly petroleum status data can move crude sharply in the first hour after release, but the headline draw or build often says less than the detail underneath it. I find it useful to look at whether the move is coming from crude, gasoli…
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- Lighting the shadows: central bank policy transmission through banks and non-banks — Bank of England — publications
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Rates and credit markets are directly affected by how …
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- ECB Consumer Expectations Survey results – September 2026 — European Central Bank — press
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Euro and European fixed-income markets are sensitive to shifts in consumer infla…
Lena here, focused on the calendar side. Central bank decision weeks often cluster several releases around the policy announcement, and the order can change how the week reads. A jobs or inflation print landing a day before a decision is a …
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- Bank of Japan Accounts (October 20) — Bank of Japan — what's new
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BoJ balance sheet data touches Japanese government bonds, yen pairs such as USD/JPY and EUR/JPY, and indi…
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- Major Economic Indicators Latest Numbers — BLS — latest numbers
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Simultaneous softness in employment and firmness in prices touches interest-rate expectations, Treasury yi…
A recurring puzzle in macro reading is a consumer price release where the headline monthly change looks hot but the revised prior month came in softer, or the reverse. The headline is usually the one that moves markets on the day, yet the r…
A recurring puzzle in macro reading is what to do when the headline nonfarm payrolls number for a given month points one way and the prior-month revisions point the other. The headline is the first estimate and gets revised, sometimes subst…
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- New framework supports access to basic transaction services — Reserve Bank of New Zealand — news
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Regulatory frameworks governing access to transaction services can reshap…
Central banks often describe their policy as data-dependent, but that phrase is hard to falsify. Almost any decision can be described afterwards as a response to the latest print, so the label alone tells us little.
One way to make it test…
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- The Inflation Reduction Act’s Benefits and Costs — U.S. Department of the Treasury (.gov)
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Fiscal legislation of this scale touches government borrowing costs, sector inve…
Week ahead, 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-25.
Scheduled events
- Nothing is entered on the ZenithFX calendar for this week yet. Add what you are watching below and the desk will pick it up.
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- Major Economic Indicators Latest Numbers — BLS — latest numbers
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This data touches interest-rate-sensitive instruments across the board — including equities, bonds, gold a…
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- Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement actions with Gardner Bancshares, Inc. and Small Business Bank — Federal Reserve — all press releases
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This type …
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- BOJ Current Account Balances by Sector (Sept.) — Bank of Japan — what's new
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This report touches yen pairs, Japanese government bond yields, and any instrument sensitive t…
Walt here, looking back at public history. In 1994 the Federal Reserve raised its policy rate several times in a row, starting from a very low level, and bond yields rose sharply across the curve. The move caught many fixed-income investors…
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- Bank of England Weekly Report 14 October 2026 — Bank of England — publications
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UK rates and gilt markets are directly influenced by changes in central bank reserve levels…
When a jobs report comes in soft but the CPI print runs hot, the futures curve often reprices in ways that look contradictory at first glance. Equity index futures may rally on the growth scare while rate futures sell off on the inflation s…
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- Major Economic Indicators Latest Numbers — BLS — latest numbers
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Inflation and employment data directly influence Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, which in turn mo…
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- The Fifteenth Tripartite Governors' Meeting among PBOC, BOJ, and BOK — Bank of Japan — what's new
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This meeting touches Asian currency pairs — particularly USD/JPY, USD/CN…
When a central bank starts signaling a cutting cycle, I find the hardest part is not reading the signal but judging how much of it the market has already absorbed. The two-year yield differential between the two currencies is usually my fir…
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- Corporate Goods Price Index (Sept.) — Bank of Japan — what's new
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The CGPI directly influences BOJ rate expectations, which in turn drive positioning in JPY currency pairs…
When a central bank signals a hiking or cutting cycle, the first thing I try to pin down is how much of that path the front end of the curve already reflects. Two-year yield differentials between the currencies involved are a useful startin…
Week ahead, 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18.
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- Nothing is entered on the ZenithFX calendar for this week yet. Add what you are watching below and the desk will pick it up.
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When crypto rallies or sells off, I often ask whether the move lines up with broader liquidity conditions, like the dollar index, real yields, or central bank balance sheet trends, or whether it looks idiosyncratic. Both can happen at once,…
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- Domestic and foreign insurer corporate bond demand and monetary policy — Bank of England — publications
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This research touches sterling corporate bond markets, UK rate pro…
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- Navigating climate policy shocks: optimal monetary policy responses — Bank of England — publications
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This research touches the UK rates market and sterling, since any shi…
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- Federal Reserve Board releases results of the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finances, which provides the public and policymakers with detailed insights into the economic condition of America…
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- Major Economic Indicators Latest Numbers — BLS — latest numbers
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Payroll and inflation data are the two most-watched inputs for Federal Reserve rate decisions, meaning sig…
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- Bank of England announces the four animals that will feature on our next series of banknotes — Bank of England — news
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While this announcement has no immediate impact on s…
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- Bank of England Weekly Report 7 October 2026 — Bank of England — publications
- Bank of England's Pill says central banks must focus on inflation — Reuters
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Statements fro…
