Financial Calendar for the day forward 22 Aug 2025

The financial calendar just isn’t very busy right this moment, however won’t be with out pleasure as now we have Jackson Gap arising later.

Throughout Asia-Pac, markets shall be watching the July inflation knowledge due for Japan. The Tokyo numbers noticed a powerful drop to 2.9% for the latest print, which is why markets expect a chunky drop from three.three% to three.zero% for the nationwide quantity right this moment.

Not too long ago, there was rising hypothesis that the BoJ may hike charges once more this yr, so a giant miss or beat will possible form expectations for charges in direction of the tip of the yr.

For later within the EU session we even have GDP knowledge due for Germany (Q2 numbers), and a heads-up that the Retail Gross sales knowledge due for the UK has been moved to the fifth of September because of the continued points with knowledge on the ONS.

Then through the US session, the ready for Jackson Gap is lastly over. Markets have been eagerly ready for Powell’s speech to see whether or not the latest downward revisions to NFP has opened up the door for extra or sooner price cuts.

Relying on the tone of the speech, it may set the temper for broader markets till we get the subsequent NFP report, so shall be an vital one to maintain on the radar.

This text was written by Arno V Venter at investinglive.com.