Next Week’s Menu: August 22-28, 2026
August 21, 2026
Central Banks: Monetary policies will be reviewed in the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Hungary and Kyrgyzstan. Some of the officials with speaking engagements will be Fed Chairman Warsh, Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Himino and Richmond Fed President Barkin.
Special Events: The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress will be in session, and the Kansas City Fed’s Annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium will run from August 27 to August 29 with a theme this year of “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.” Fed Chairman Warsh will be the keynote speaker on Friday.
Scheduled U.S. Economic Data Releases: Quarterly GDP and PCE price deflator. Monthly new home sales, Case-Shiller and FHFA house price indices, personal income, personal consumption, PCE price deflator, durable goods orders, U. Michigan survey survey of consumer confidence, trade balance, historical employment revisions, Chicago regional purchasing managers survey, and Richmond and Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey results. Weekly jobless insurance claims, energy inventories, chain store sales and mortgage applications.
Euroland Releases: Economic sentiment, consumer confidence, and money and credit growth.
Members of the Euro Area: German, French, Italian and Finnish GDP. German, Italian, French, Finnish, Slovakian and Portuguese consumer confidence. German, Italian and Belgian business sentiment. French, Spanish, Slovakian and Austrian producer prices. French, Belgian and Spanish consumer prices. German import prices and unemployment. Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, Lithuanian, Estonian and Croatian retail sales. Lithuanian, and Croatian industrial production. French household spending and Italian industrial sales.
U.K. and Switzerland: British Nationwide house price index and survey of distributive trades. Swiss ZEW survey of investor sentiment and KOF-compiled business cycle leading indicator.
Nordic Europe: Swedish, Norwegian and Danish retail sales. Norwegian and Swedish GDP. Icelandic and Swedish producer prices. Swedish GDP and trade balance. Icelandic producer prices.
Eastern Europe: Russian and Czech GDP. Czech business confidence and consumer sentiment. Polish retail sales and Russian industrial production.
Japanese Releases: Corporate service prices, Tokyo consumer prices, unemployment, housing starts, construction orders and index of leading economic indicators.
Selected Other Asian Items: Singaporean CPI, PPI, import prices and industrial production. Indian GDP, industrial production and index of leading economic indicators. South Korean consumer confidence and business sentiment. Malaysian producer prices and China’s index of leading economic indicators.
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey: Australian CPI, household spending and index of leading economic indicators, New Zealand retail sales. South African leading business cycle indicator and PPI. Turkey’s economic sentiment survey.
Mexico and Brazil: Mexican and Brazilian current accounts. Mexican trade balance and GDP. Brazilian consumer confidence, PPI and unemployment.
Canadian Releases: Quarterly current account and GDP and monthly trade balance.
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