{"id":235614,"date":"2025-10-31T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235614\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T09:00:06","slug":"what-are-the-main-events-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/235614\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the main events for today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">In the European session, we have a few data releases including German Retail Sales, Swiss Retail Sales, French CPI, Italian CPI and lastly the Eurozone CPI. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">The Eurozone CPI is the main highlight but it shouldn&#8217;t change anything for the ECB at the moment, as the central bank has ended the easing cycle and it&#8217;s now just monitoring the economic developments. They said multiple times that they won&#8217;t react to small or short-term deviations from their 2% target. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">In the American session, the only highlight is the monthly Canadian GDP which is expected at 0.0% vs 0.2% prior. The data shouldn&#8217;t change anything for the BoC at the moment as the central bank cut interest rates to the lower bound of their estimated range and signalled a potential end to their easing cycle as Governor Macklem said that the policy rate was now &#8220;at about the right level&#8221; to keep inflation close<br \/>\n to 2 per cent while helping the economy. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">He kept a door open for further easing though in case things deteriorate too much as he added that the bank could come off<br \/>\nthe sidelines &#8220;if there is a material change in the outlook&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Lastly, we will hear from a few Fed speakers today as they come out of the blackout period. Fed Chair Powell&#8217;s hawkish turn is still reverberating in the markets and the market will be focused on anything that could confirm no cut at the December meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Central bank speakers:13:30 GMT\/09:30 ET &#8211; Fed&#8217;s Logan (hawkish &#8211; voter in 2026)16:00 GMT\/12:00 ET &#8211; Fed&#8217;s Bostic (hawkish &#8211; voter in 2027)16:00 GMT\/12:00 ET &#8211; Fed&#8217;s Hammack (hawk &#8211; voter in 2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the European session, we have a few data releases including German Retail Sales, Swiss Retail Sales, French&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-235614","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235614","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=235614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}