{"id":178627,"date":"2025-10-04T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178627\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:58:08","slug":"no-nfp-and-hamas-accepts-the-deal-but-market-wrap-for-the-north-american-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/178627\/","title":{"rendered":"No NFP and Hamas accepts the deal, but&#8230; \u2013\u00a0 Market wrap for the North American session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"eg4ro\">The political spotlight this weekend is on Japan, where the LDP Presidential Election (Friday, Oct 3) continues to ripple through markets. Polls show a tight race between K\u014dz\u014d Izumi and Sanae Takaichi, a contest that could shape Japan\u2019s fiscal stance, defense policy, and BoJ-government dynamics. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cutbm\">JPY traders will be watching closely for outcomes and any coalition maneuvering.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bmtmq\">Also, keep an eye on the Israel-Hamas headlines.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1i8pd\">In Europe, a trio of ECB speeches kicks off the week, with De Guindos (03:15 ET), Lane (04:00 ET), and Lagarde (13:00 ET) all on deck. Markets will parse for guidance after sticky September inflation.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4saph\">At 04:30 ET, the Sentix Investor Confidence (Oct) is expected to rebound slightly from -9.2, while at 05:00 ET, Eurozone retail sales are seen flat at +0.1% MoM, still weak on a yearly basis (-2.2% YoY).<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4orog\">Sterling gets a highlight at 13:30 ET with BoE Governor Bailey\u2019s speech, his first remarks since the dovish shift at the last MPC.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dvmbv\">The APAC session rounds out with business and consumer sentiment data: NZ Business Confidence (Q3) at 17:00 ET, UK BRC retail sales (Sep) at 19:01 ET, and Australia\u2019s Westpac Consumer Confidence (Oct) at 19:30 ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The political spotlight this weekend is on Japan, where the LDP Presidential Election (Friday, Oct 3) continues to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,467,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}