April 26 – May 2, 2025 – Currency Thoughts
Next Week’s Menu: April 26 – May 2, 2025
April 25, 2025
Central Banks: Interest rate policies will be reviewed in Japan, Colombia, Hungary, Brazil and Thailand. The Bank of Japan’s quarterly Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices gets published. Bank of Japan Governor Ueda, Kent of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and Ramsden of the Bank of England have speaking engagements.
Holidays and Special Event: Many countries will be celebrating laborers on May 1. Canadian general parliamentary elections are scheduled for Sunday.
Purchasing Manager Surveys: Over 40 manufacturing surveys and the NBS-compiled Chinese service sector PMI results.
U.S. Economic Data Releases: Quarterly GDP and employment cost index. Monthly labor market situation (unemployment, non-farm employment, average wage earnings, etc), construction spending, pending home sales, FHFA and Case Shiller house price indices, Dallas Fed manufacturing survey, Chicago regional PMI, personal income, personal consumption expenditures, PCE price deflator, Conference Board’s consumer confidence index, factory orders, and JOLTS index of job hires and quits. Weekly mortgage applications, jobless insurance claims, energy inventories, and chain store sales.
Euroland Releases: Quarterly GDP and monthly economic sentiment, consumer prices, unemployment and money and credit growth.
Members of the Euro Area: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Austrian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Greek, and Irish GDP. German, Lithuanian, Estonian, Slovenian, Irish, Dutch and Latvian retail sales. German, French, Spanish, and Italian consumer prices. French, Italian, Austrian, Slovakian, and Cypriot producer prices. German, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, and Slovakian consumer prices. Spanish and Dutch current accounts. German, Spanish, and Italian unemployment. Portuguese and Croatian industrial production. German import prices, French household consumption, and Italian industrial sales.
U.K. and Switzerland: British distributive trades survey, Nationwide house price index, shop prices, money growth, and mortgage approvals. Swiss ZEW index of investor sentiment and leading business cycle index.
Eastern Europe: Hungarian, Russian and Bulgarian GDP. Hungarian and Bulgarian producer prices. Russian GDP and unemployment. Hungary’s trade balance.
Nordic Europe: Swedish, Danish and Norwegian retail sales and PPI. Swedish and Icelandic GDP. Swedish consumer confidence and trade balance.
Japanese Releases: Industrial production, retail sales, housing starts, construction orders, unemployment, monetary base, consumer confidence and index of leading economic indicators.
Selected Other Asian Releases: Malaysian and Singaporean PPI. South Korean, Filipino and Hong Kong trade balances. Hong Kong GDP and Chinese corporate earnings. Business confidence in Singapore.
Australia and New Zealand: Australian and New Zealand building permits. Australian retail sales, PPI, trade balance and money and credit growth. NBNZ index of New Zealand business confidence.
South Africa and Turkey: South African and Turkish trade balances. South African money and credit growth. Turkish unemployment and economic sentiment.
Canada, Mexico and Brazil: Canadian monthly GDP and industrial production. Mexican unemployment, GDP, trade balance and business confidence. Brazil’s current account.
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