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This Week’s Menu: July 5-11, 2025 July 6, 2025 Central Banks: Monetary policies to be reviewed in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, South Korea, Peru, Romania and Serbia. FOMC minutes will be published on Wednesday, and the Reserve Bank of Australia’s quarterly Monetary Policy Statement will be released. Waller, Daly and Musalem are some of the…

Trade Concerns Back in the Forefront July 4, 2025 Having secured a single broad tax and spending bill, President Trump turned attention back to promised trade tariffs, and once again investors are learning of a sudden policy shift. Instead of a multitude of trade negotiations with complex commodity-specific and varied tariff charges, the president has…

Awaiting U.S. Labor Statistics, Trump’s Fiscal Package and ECB Minutes July 3, 2025 Financial markets are waiting and seeing ahead of today’s one-day early release of June U.S. labor market statistics. Considerable progress was made overnight toward a likely passage by the House of President Trump’s tax and spending bill, setting the stage for its…

Surprise Interest Rate Cut at the National Bank of Poland July 2, 2025 When Poland’s interest rate was cut two months ago by a half percentage point, that was the first change since a pair of cuts in September and October of 2023. The length of that pause, the lack of a rate change in…

Looming Deadlines and Newly Expressed Concern about Dollar’s Recent Softness July 2, 2025 U.S. President Trump wants a reconciled tax and spending bill on his desk for signing by Friday, Independence Day.The senate’s bill passed by the narrowest of margins (51-50) and would raise U.S. debt considerably more than the House’s earlier plan. Despite that…

Dollar Kicks Off A New Quarter With Another Decline July 1, 2025 The weighted DXY dollar index slipped 0.4% overnight to a fresh 3-1/2-year low. The dollar lost 0.8% to the yen and Aussie dollar, 0.6% against the Swiss franc, 0.4% against sterling and 0.2% relative to the euro, which at $1.1809 currently is very…

June and Second Quarter 2025 in Figures June 30, 2025 The dollar weakened sharply against most other currencies during the second quarter, including in the final month of June. The advance in U.S, equities outperformed stock markets in most other currencies in both time comparisons. A rise in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield in April-May…

Quarter-End Ushers in Crunch Time for U.S. Budget Bill and Trade Talks as Well as A Flood of Data June 30, 2025 It’s do-or-die time for President Trump’s big beautiful budget tax and spending bill, and the July 9th deadline for bilateral trade deals that would greatly scale back threatened huge reciprocal tariffs is just…

Here, There and Everywhere June 26, 2025 President Trump is back in Washington from the NATO summit in The Hague after receiving wide praise there from other attendees for achieving a cease fire between Israel and Iran, getting European nations to ante up more spending for the common defense, and setting the stage for renewed…