October 25 – 31, 2025 – Currency Thoughts
Next Week’s Menu: October 25 – 31, 2025
October 24, 2025
Central Banks: In the last week of October, monetary policies will be reviewed at the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada, European Central Bank, and in Kyrgyzstan, Brazil and Colombia. Powell, Lagarde, Ueda and Macklem will hold press conferences afterward. Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Bullock also speaks publicly. The Bank of Japan publishes its quarterly Outlook of Economic Activity and Prices with updated forecasts.
Elections: Dutch House of Representatives on October 25 and Argentine midterm legislative election (half the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and half of those in the Senate) on October 26.
Special Event: Trump and Xi will be meeting in South Korea on October 30.
Scheduled U.S. Data Releases: There’s no end to the shutdown in sight, so many of the following will not in fact occur. Quarterly GDP, employment cost index and PCE price deflator. Monthly factory orders, personal income, personal spending, PCE price deflator, Dallas and Richmond Fed manufacturing surveys, pending home sales, new home sales, Advanced merchandise trade deficit, and consumer confidence. Weekly jobless insurance claims, chain store sales, mortgage applications and energy inventories.
Japanese and Chinese Releases: Japanese consumer confidence, Tokyo CPI, unemployment, industrial production, retail sales, housing starts and construction orders. Chinese NBS-compiled PMI surveys, corporate earnings, and index of leading economic indicators.
Other Selected Asian Releases: South Korean and Hong Kong GDP and retail sales. Trade balances in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Philppines. Malaysian and Filipino producer prices. South Korean and Indian industrial production. South Korean consumer confidence and Singaporean unemployment.
Euroland Releases: Consumer prices and the growth of money and credit.
Members of the Euro Area: German, Italian, French, Spanish, Lithuanian, Belgian, Portuguese, Irish and Austrian GDP. German, Finnish, Italian and Slovakian consumer confidence. German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Slovenian consumer prices. French, Italian, Slovakian, Austrian and Cypriot PPI. German, Estonian, Latvian, Slovenian, Portuguese, Croatian, Spanish and Dutch retail sales. German import prices and unemployment. Croatian and Cypriot industrial production. Austria’s manufacturing purchasing managers survey.
U.K. and Switzerland: British shop prices, distributive trades survey, money growth, mortgage approvals and Nationwide house price index. Swiss ZEW-compiled index of investor sentiment, KOF-compiled leading business cycle index, and retail sales.
Nordic Europe: Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian retail sales. Swedish GDP, consumer sentiment and trade balance. Icelandic CPI inflation.
Eastern Europe: Russian, Czech and Hungarian GDP. Hungarian CPI and Bulgarian PPI. Russian unemployment, corporate profits and PMI.
Australia and New Zealand: Australian quarterly CPI, PPI and import prices plus monthly credit and money growth. NBNZ index of New Zealand business sentiment.
Turkey and South Africa: Turkish trade, business confidence, capacity utilization and unemployment. South African money and credit growth, PPI and trade balance.
Mexico and Brazil: Mexican GDP, unemployment and trade balance. Brazilian consumer sentiment.
Canadian Releases: Monthly GDP and industrial production.
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