The Week Ahead On The Markets
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The Week Ahead
Read about upcoming market-moving events and plan your trading week
Week commencing 20 February
Chris Beauchamp's insight
This week’s key events include minutes from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which will look at the recent interest rate decisions in Australia and the US respectively, with investors hoping these will provide further clues on the path of rates into the rest of the year. Beyond this, the Canadian and Japanese consumer price index (CPI), plus the US personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index (the Federal Reserve (Fed’s) preferred measure) will keep the focus on price data. UK bank earnings dominate the week for corporate reporting, along with updates from big miners like Rio Tinto and aerospace engineer Rolls Royce.
Economic reports
- Weekly view
Monday
Presidents’ Day – US stock markets closed
3pm – Eurozone consumer confidence (February, flash): index to rise to -20.9. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
Tuesday
12.30am – RBA meeting minutes. Markets to watch: AUD crosses
12.30am – Japan PMIs (February, flash): manufacturing to rise to 49.5 and services to rise to 52.4. Markets to watch: JPY crosses
8.30am – German PMIs (February, flash): manufacturing to rise to 48.2 and services to rise to 51.5. Markets to watch: eurozone indices, EUR crosses
9am – eurozone PMIs (February, flash): manufacturing to rise to 49.5 and services to rise to 51.5. Markets to watch: eurozone indices, EUR crosses
9.30am – UK PMIs (February, flash): services to rise to 49.3 and manufacturing to rise to 47.5. Markets to watch: GBP crosses
10am – German ZEW (February): economic sentiment index to rise to 25.1. Markets to watch: eurozone indices, EUR crosses
1.30pm – Canada CPI (January): prices to rise 5.6% YoY, down from 6.3% in December, and rise 0.2% MoM, from a 0.6% fall in December. Markets to watch: CAD crosses
2.45pm – US PMIs (February, flash): services to rise to 47.2 and manufacturing to rise to 47.4. Markets to watch: USD crosses
3pm – US existing home sales (January): expected to fall 0.2% MoM. Markets to watch: USD crosses
Wednesday
9am – German IFO index (February): index to rise to 91.2. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
7pm – FOMC minutes. Markets to watch: US indices, USD crosses
Thursday
1.30pm – US initial jobless claims (w/e 18 February), Chicago nat’l Fed index (January), GDP (Q2, 2nd estimate): claims to rise to 197K, Chicago Fed index to rise to -0.2. Markets to watch: USD crosses
4pm – US EIA crude oil inventories (w/e 17 February): stockpiles rose by 16.2 million barrels in the preceding week. Markets to watch: Brent, WTI
Friday
7am – German GfK consumer confidence (March): index to fall to -34. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
1.30pm – US PCE price index (January): prices to rise 0.1% MoM and 4.2% YoY. Markets to watch: USD crosses
3pm – US new home sales (January): sales to rise 0.4% MoM. Markets to watch: USD crosses
Company announcements
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Dividends
FTSE 100: Endeavour Mining, GSK, Land Securities, Astrazeneca, Unilever, Barclays, Standard Chartered
FTSE 250: Witan Investment Trust, Redrow, Plus500
Dividends are applied after the close of the previous day’s session for each market. So, for example, the FTSE 100 goes ex-dividend on a Thursday, but the adjustment is applied at the close of the previous day, e.g. Wednesday. The table below shows the days in which the adjustment is applied, not the ex-dividend days.
Index adjustments
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6.8 |
Monday 20 February |
Tuesday 21 February |
Wednesday 22 February |
Thursday 23 February |
Friday 24 February |
Monday 27 February |
| FTSE 100 | 19.91 | |||||
| Australia 200 | 1.8 | 12.3 | 26.8 | 1.8 | 5.0 | 4.1 |
| Wall Street | 6.8 | 4.6 | 10.0 | |||
| US 500 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.34 | 0.18 | 0.60 | 0.41 |
| Nasdaq | 0.23 | 1.43 | 0.89 | 0.23 | 0.10 | |
| Netherlands 25 | 1.01 | |||||
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| South Africa 40 | 39 | |||||
| Italy 40 | ||||||
| Japan 225 | 15.9 |
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