{"id":552129,"date":"2026-07-21T10:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/552129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:38:29","slug":"what-are-the-main-events-for-today-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/552129\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the main events for today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EUROPEAN SESSION<\/p>\n<p>In the European session, the main highlight was the <a class=\"article-link\" href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/uk-may-ilo-unemployment-rate-4-9-vs-5-0-expected\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK employment<\/a> report. The data was mostly in line with expectations although a bit on the soft side in terms of wage growth, which is a welcome news for the BoE. Overall, the data didn&#8217;t change anything for monetary policy expectations, so the market reaction was limited. <\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, we will get the German ZEW economic sentiment index which is expected at 15.3 vs 10.5 prior. The data won&#8217;t change anything for the ECB which is expected to hold rates steady at the upcoming meeting. Therefore, the market reaction will likely be muted. <\/p>\n<p>AMERICAN SESSION<\/p>\n<p>In the American session, we just have the weekly US ADP employment change. This was a market moving report when it was first released back in October 2025 but the market forgot about it quickly after it became clear the US labour market stabilised. <\/p>\n<p>The focus will remain on US-Iran headlines as <a class=\"article-link\" href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/commodities\/axios-reports-that-trump-nears-decision-between-new-iran-ceasefire-and-full-scale-war\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trump is said to be weighing between a ceasefire and a full-scale war<\/a>. It goes without saying that a ceasefire would be positive for risk sentiment, while a full-scale war would have a very negative impact on the markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUROPEAN SESSION In the European session, the main highlight was the UK employment report. The data was mostly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-552129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}