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Please note that all rates shown are midpoint indicative rates.
All Day EUR Italian Bank Holiday
4:30pm AUD Cash Rate
Forecast 3.60% Previous 3.60%
4:30pm AUD RBA Rate Statement
5:30pm AUD RBA Press Conference
10:00pm JPY BOJ Gov Ueda Speaks
Tentative USD ADP Weekly Employment Change
Previous -13.5K
3:15am GBP Monetary Policy Report Hearings
Sep Data USD JOLTS Job Openings
Previous 7.23M
4:00am USD JOLTS Job Openings
Previous 7.14M
10:10am NZD RBNZ Gov Breman Speaks
2:30pm CNY CPI y/y
Forecast 0.70% Previous 0.20%
2:30pm CNY PPI y/y
Forecast -2.00% Previous -2.10%
11:55pm EUR ECB President Lagarde Speaks
2:30am USD Employment Cost Index q/q
Forecast 0.90% Previous 0.90%
3:45am CAD BOC Rate Statement
3:45am CAD Overnight Rate
Forecast 2.25% Previous 2.25%
4:30am CAD BOC Press Conference
8:00am USD Federal Funds Rate
Forecast 3.75% Previous 4.00%
8:00am USD FOMC Economic Projections
8:00am USD FOMC Statement
8:30am USD FOMC Press Conference
1:30pm AUD Employment Change
Forecast 20.3K Previous 42.2K
1:30pm AUD Unemployment Rate
Forecast 4.40% Previous 4.30%
Tentative GBP BOE Gov Bailey Speaks
11:00pm GBP BOE Gov Bailey Speaks
2:30am USD Unemployment Claims
Forecast 221K Previous 191K
8:00pm GBP GDP m/m
Forecast 0.10% Previous -0.10%
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Markets await the Fed’s last rate decision of the year and expectations are high for a rate cut of 25 basis points. A tight labour market and cooling inflation is the perfect environment to relax monetary policy. US equities rebounded and look forward to the IRD.
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