{"id":740300,"date":"2026-08-17T00:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740300\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:40:09","slug":"the-week-ahead-fed-minutes-walmart-results-uk-cpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740300\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead: Fed minutes, Walmart results, UK CPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic &amp; company events calendar<\/p>\n<p>Major scheduled data releases, plus other listed company results:<\/p>\n<p>Monday 17 August <br \/>\u2022 Canada: July consumer price index (CPI)<br \/>\u2022 China: July industrial production, July retail sales<br \/>\u2022 Japan: Q2 gross domestic product (GDP)<br \/>\u2022 US: August Empire State manufacturing survey<br \/>\u2022 Results: Costain (HY), Duos Technologies Group (Q2), Fabrinet (Q4), Flexsteel (Q4), MTI Wireless Edge (Q2), Optima (FY)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 18 August<br \/>\u2022 Germany: August ZEW economic sentiment survey<br \/>\u2022 UK: June average earnings, unemployment rate<br \/>\u2022 US: July building permits, housing starts, industrial production, pending home sales<br \/>\u2022 Results: BHP (FY), Cambridge Nutritional Sciences (FY), Empresaria Group (HY), Home Depot (Q2), Keysight (Q3), Morgan Advanced Materials (HY), Synectics (HY), Toll Brothers (Q3)<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 19 August<br \/>\u2022 Germany: July consumer price index (CPI)<br \/>\u2022 UK: July CPI, producer price index (PPI), retail price index (RPI)<br \/>\u2022 US: Federal Open Market Committee minutes<br \/>\u2022 Results: Analog (Q3), Ithaca Energy (HY), Kenmare Resources (HY), Lowe\u2019s (Q2), Oxford Nanopore Technologies (HY), Target (Q2), TJX (Q2)<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 20 August<br \/>\u2022 Australia: July unemployment rate <br \/>\u2022 China: PBoC interest rate decision<br \/>\u2022 Germany: July PPI<br \/>\u2022 Japan: July trade balance<br \/>\u2022 US: August Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey, weekly initial jobless claims<br \/>\u2022 Results: Capital (HY), John Deere (Q3), Hays (FY), Ross Stores (Q2), Walmart (Q2)<\/p>\n<p>Friday 21 August<br \/>\u2022 Australia: August flash manufacturing &amp; services purchasing managers\u2019 indices (PMIs)<br \/>\u2022 Germany: August flash manufacturing &amp; services PMIs<br \/>\u2022 Eurozone: August consumer confidence, <br \/>\u2022 flash manufacturing &amp; services PMIs <br \/>\u2022 Japan: July CPI<br \/>\u2022 UK: August GfK consumer confidence, flash manufacturing &amp; services PMIs, July retail sales<br \/>\u2022 US: August flash manufacturing &amp; services PMIs<br \/>\u2022 Results: BJ&#8217;s Wholesale Club (Q2), Flowers Foods (Q2), Hunting (HY), IntChains (Q2), The Buckle (Q2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economic &amp; company events calendar Major scheduled data releases, plus other listed company results: Monday 17 August \u2022&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740300","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=740300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}