October 11 – 17, 2025 – Currency Thoughts
Next Week’s Menu: October 11 – 17, 2025
October 10, 2025
Central Banks: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will release it semi-annual Monetary Policy Statement on Tuesday. Unlike most other central banks that target an interest rate, MAS orients monetary policy by targeting the weighted value of its currency. Three variables are targeted: the width of a permitted trading band, the midpoint of that band, and the slope of the corridor. During the week, minutes of the last Australian monetary policy meeting and the Federal Reserve Beige Book of regional economic conditions will be published.
Events and Holidays: On Monday, Columbus Day will be observed in the United States, Thanksgiving will be observed in Canada, and Health Sports Day is scheduled in Japan. The autumn meetings of the IMF/World Bank will be held in Washington D.C. from October 13 through October 18th. OPEC publishes its monthly report.
Scheduled U.S. Data Releases: It’s one thing to schedule release dates and quite another to meet those commitments. Until the U.S. federal government shutdown ends, many of the following releases will not occur: consumer prices, producer prices, retail sales, housing starts, building permits, the NAHB housing market report, import and export prices, small business sentiment, the Philly Fed and Empire State manufacturing surveys, industrial production, capacity usage, and Treasury-compiled capital flows. Also weekly jobless insurance claims, energy inventories, chain store sales and mortgage applications.
Chinese and Japanese Releases: Chinese CPI, PPI, GDP, auto sales, money growth, bank lending, and trade balance. Japanese revised industrial production, capacity utilization, machinery orders, tertiary index and M3 stock of money.
Selected Other Asian Data: Indian, Malaysian and Singaporean trade balances. Malaysian and Singaporean unemployment. Indian CPI and WPI, and South Korean unemployment.
Euroland Releases: Industrial production, revised CPI inflation, index of leading economic indicators, trade balance, and ZEW indices of investor expectations and perceived current impressions.
Members of the Euro Area: German ZEW index of investor expectations and current account. German, Spanish, French, Italian, Croatian, Finnish, Slovakian, and Austrian consumer prices. German, Spanish, and French indices of leading economic indicators. Italian, Irish and Belgian trade balances. German wholesale prices, Portuguese producer prices, and Irish construction purchasing managers index.
U.K. and Switzerland: British labor market statistics, monthly GDP, trade balance, industrial production construction output and index of leading economic indicators. Swiss PPI, import prices, and revised government forecasts of GDP and inflation.
Eastern Europe: Russian and Czech producer prices. Romanian, Polish and Bulgarian consumer prices. Russian, Polish and Bulgarian current accounts. Romanian and Hungarian industrial production.
Nordic Europe: Danish PPI and Norway’s trade balance. Swedish CPI and unemployment.
Australia and New Zealand: Australian unemployment, jobs growth, business confidence, business conditions, business confidence and index of leading economic indicators. New Zealand food prices, CPI, and service sector purchasing managers survey.
South Africa and Turkey: South African business confidence and retail sales. Turkey’s current account.
Canada and Brazil: Canadian housing starts and manufacturing sales, orders and inventories. Brazilian retail sales and business confidence.
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