This Week’s Menu: January 3-9, 2026
January 3, 2026
Central Banks: The Bank of Israel holds its first interest rate review of 2026. Federal Reserve officials speaking publicly during the coming week will be Kashkari, Bowman, Barkin, and Paulson. Cipollone, Marderer, and Guindos of the European Central Bank also have speaking engagements.
Event and Purchasing Manager Surveys: OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting tomorrow. Over 35 surveys will be reported covering a wider range of economies and manufacturing, service sector activity, and construction.
Scheduled U.S. Data Releases: Quarterly productivity and unit labor costs. Monthly trade balance, factory orders, job hires, openings and quits, housing starts, building permits, U. Michigan index of consumer sentiment, ADP estimate of private employment growth, consumer price expectations and the Labor Dept. employment situation report including nonfarm payroll jobs, unemployment and average wage earnings. Weekly chain store sales, jobless insurance claims, energy inventories and mortgage applications.
Euroland Releases: Consumer prices, producer prices, retail sales, unemployment, economic sentiment index, consumer confidence and Sentix gauge of investor sentiment.
Members of the Euro Area: German, Italian, French, Lithuanian, Estonian, Cypriot and Greek consumer prices. French and Portuguese consumer confidence. Spanish, Irish, Slovakian, Slovenian, Latvian, French, German, Finnish, Estonian and Austrian industrial production. German, Dutch, Irish, Slovakian, and Italian retail sales. German and French trade balances. French current account, Austrian wholesale prices and Lithuanian producer prices.
U.K. and Switzerland: British mortage approvals, shop prices and Halifax house price index. Swiss CPI and retail sales.
Eastern Europe: Czech, Hungarian and Bulgarian industrial production. Romanian and Hungarian retail sales and PPI. Czech trade balance and Romanian GDP.
Nordic Europe: Norwegian and Danish CPI, PPI and industrial production.
Japanese and Chinese Releases: Japanese current account, household spending, average cash earnings, monetary base, consumer confidence and index of leading economic indicators. Japanese and Chinese international reserves. Chinese CPI and PPI.
Other Asia: Indonesian and Filipino consumer prices. Singaporean and Indonesian retail sales. South Korean current account and index of leading economic indicators. Indonesian trade balance.
Australia, Turkey and South Africa: Australian CPI, trade balance and housing permits. Turkish CPI, PPI, trade balance and industrial production. South African factory output.
Canada, Brazil and Mexico: Canadian labor market statistics, trade balance and IVEY-PMI index. Brazilian CPI, industrial production and consumer prices. Mexican CPI, industrial production and consumer confidence.
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