Note that Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic is speaking on Thursday evening, US time (7pm US Eastern time). Its billed as participation in a conversation on the economic outlook with some focus on the Birmingham region. Be ready for some market relevant headlines from this. The Fed is facing a volatile political environment with on-off-on-off-etc. tariffs that is impacting the economy in unknown ways. the outlooks for policy ahead we’ve been hearing from Fed officials like Bostic have been reflecting this political and market uncertainty. The headlive-driven market will continue.
China’s trade data for February is on the agenda today. The timing for this release is uncertain also, so you’ll see it listed below as ‘n/a’ and elsewhere as ‘tentative’ and descriptions like that. The likelihood is some time from around 0300 GMT/2200 US Eastern time. The data is sometimes a bit of a ‘drip feed’ too, with a number released and then a wait for more.
- This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
- The times in the left-most column are GMT.
- The numbers in the right-most column are the ‘prior’ (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.
