February 22-28, 2025 – Currency Thoughts
Next Week’s Menu: February 22-28, 2025
February 21, 2025
Central Banks: Interest rate settings will be reviewed at central banks in Kyrgyzstan, Israel, South Korea, Hungary and Thailand. Minutes from the last European Central Bank Governing Council meeting will be published. Pill and Dhingra of the Bank of England and Hammack, Bostic, and Harker of the Federal Reserve speak publicly.
Special Event: German parliamentary elections on February 23rd.
Scheduled U.S. Economic Data Releases: Quarterly GDP and PCE price deflator. Monthly Dallas, K.C., and Richmond Fed manufacturing indices, new home sales, pending home sales, preliminary merchandise trade deficit, consumer confidence, Case Shiller and FHFA house price indices, durable goods orders, Chicago manufacturing PMI, Chicago Fed National Activity Index, personal income and spending, and PCE price deflator. Weekly jobless insurance claims, mortgage applications, energy inventories, and chain store sales.
Euroland Releases: Consumer confidence, economic sentiment, consumer prices, money and credit growth.
Members of the Euro Area: German, French, Latvian, Irish, Finnish, and Austrian GDP. German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, and Slovakian consumer confidence. Estonian, Spanish, Slovakian, French and Croatian producer prices. German, French, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Austrian, and Slovakian consumer prices. German, Lithuanian, Latvian, Irish, Slovenian, and Portuguese retail sales. Spanish and Belgian business confidence. German import prices and unemployment. Austrian manufacturing PMI, French consumer spending, Cypriot industrial production and Italian industrial sales. Spanish and Irish current accounts.
U.K. and Switzerland: British Nationwide house price index, shop prices, and distributive trades survey. Swiss GDP, retail sales, KOF leading indicator index, ZEW index of investor sentiment, and quarterly employment.
Eastern Europe: Czech, Polish, and Bulgarian GDP. Hungarian and Bulgarian producer prices. Russian industrial production and Hungary’s trade balance.
Nordic Europe: Norwegian, Swedish and Danish retail sales. Icelandic and Swedish PPI. Icelandic CPI and unemployment. Swedish and Icelandic GDP. Swedish trade balance.
Japanese Releases: Retail sales, corporate service prices, index of leading economic indicators, Tokyo consumer prices, industrial production, housing starts and construction orders.
Other Asian Releases: Singaporean, Indian, and Hong Kong GDP. Filipino and Hong Kong trade balances. Malaysian and Singaporean PPI. Chinese unemployment and Indian index of leading economic indicators.
Australia and South Africa: Australian and South African money and credit growth. South African CPI, PPI, trade balance, and business cycle index. Australian quarterly business investment.
Turkey and New Zealand: Business confidence in Turkey and New Zealand. Turkey’s trade balance and New Zeland retail sales.
Canada, Mexico and Brazil: Canadian GDP, current account and factory sales. Mexican current account and trade balance. Brazilian unemployment, GDP and consumer sentiment.
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