{"id":407943,"date":"2026-04-20T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:38:08","slug":"what-are-the-main-events-for-today-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407943\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the main events for today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EUROPEAN SESSION<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">In the European session, we don&#8217;t have anything on the agenda. The focus remains on US-Iran headlines with the latest tensions weighing on risk sentiment. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The good news is that the ceasefire is still holding although both sides are accusing each other of violating the ceasefire in relations to the <a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/investinglive-asia-pacific-fx-news-wrap-hormuz-reclosure-oil-up-at-the-open-20260420\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-4026719d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">events in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">This is keeping markets afloat, but the risk of a more pronounced selloff is high considering the recent rally in the US stock market. It goes without saying that US-Iran headlines will continue to dominate the price action until the situation in the Middle East is fully resolved.<\/p>\n<p>AMERICAN SESSION<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">In the American session, the only highlight is the Canadian CPI report. The Trimmed Mean CPI Y\/Y is expected at 2.3% vs 2.3% prior. The Canadian data has been pointing more towards rate cuts lately with substantial easing in core inflation and weak jobs reports.<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Nonetheless, the market has been pricing in a rate hike by year-end due to higher energy prices. Today&#8217;s data is for March, so we are going to see an increase in headline inflation which is very much expected and shouldn&#8217;t trigger any notable market reaction.<\/p>\n<p>CENTRAL BANK SPEAKERS16:40 GMT\/12:40 ET &#8211; ECB President Lagarde (neutral &#8211; voter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUROPEAN SESSION In the European session, we don&#8217;t have anything on the agenda. The focus remains on US-Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-407943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}