Global Events this Week April 17 - 23, 2022:

This is Fulcrum Macro Advisors weekly calendar of key political and economic events we are watching in the coming week.  Please let us know if you have any questions.

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Sunday, April 17, 2022:

Political/Social Events:

Economic Reports/Events:

  • Nothing significant to report.

Monday April 18, 2022:

Political/Social Events – 

Economic Reports/Events –

  • Markets closed in most of Europe, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa for Easter holiday

  • World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings commence (until April 23rd).

  • US National Association of Home Builders April Index

  • Russia expected to soften cash operations restrictions and allow banks to sell hard currency.

  • China GDP for Q1, March growth data, retail sales, fixed assets, property investment, residential property sales

  • Canada March housing starts

  • Spain trade balance figures

  • German Buba Monthly report

  • Brazil inflation index

  • Tesla plans to resume production at its Gigafactory in Shanghai after 3 weeks of COVID lockdown.

Tuesday April 19, 2022:

Political/Social Events – 

  • Sri Lanka’s main opposition party is expected to submit a no-confidence motion again the government and impeachment motion against the President as a result of the ongoing economic crisis.

  • NATO begins annual cybersecurity wargames – Operation Locked Shields – in Tallinn, Estonia

  • Armenia’s President Nikol Pashinian to travel to Moscow.

  • The UN Security Council holds consultations on its mission in Libya.

  • African Union holds an expert session on migration, refugees, and internal displaced people.

  •  Timor Leste holds second round of presidential elections.

Economic Reports/Events –

  • IMF releases April 2022 World Economic Outlook

  • US building permits (Mar.), housing starts

  • China’s People’s Bank of China loan prime rate

  • Japan exports/import figures, trade balances, industrial production, capacity utilization figures

  • Canada existing home sales (Mar.)

Wednesday 20, 2022: 

Political/Social Events – 

  • G-7 Finance Ministers meet in Washington DC to discuss global financial issues including a coordinated response to rising inflation (they are all in Washington for World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings).

  • G-20 Finance Ministers meet in Washington DC to discuss global financial issues.

  • China holds Boao Forum in Hainan, China.

  • Honduras’s former President Juan Orlando Hernandez to be extradited to the US to face trial for drug trafficking charges.

  • Democratic Republic of the Congo’s parliament debates proposed electoral reform law.

Economic Reports/Events –

  • US March existing home sales, Fed’s Beige Book released, crude oil inventories, gasoline production, heating oil stockpiles

  • Japan March trade balance

  • Germany March PPI

  • Italy February trade balance

  •  Eurozone February industrial production, trade balance

  •  Canada March CPI

  • Russian government expected to submit proposals for raising wages, pensions, and minimum wage; PPIs scheduled to be reported

  •  South Africa inflation (Mar)

  • Ghana GDP (Q4 and all of 2021)

Thursday, April 21, 2022:

Political/Social Events – 

Economic Reports/Events –

Friday, April 22, 2022:

Political/Social Events – 

Economic Reports/Events –

  •  Federal Reserve “Black-Out Period” begins in advance of next Open Meeting

  • US PMIs, retail sales figures

  •  France PMIs

  • Germany PMIs

  • Eurozone PMIs

  • Hong Kong PMIs

  •  Japan PMI (Mar.), Jibun Bank PMIs

  • UK GfK Consumer Confidence (Apr.), retail sales (Mar.)

  • Canada industrial production price (Mar.), retail sales (Feb.)

  • Mozambique gets S&P Global Ratings assessment

Saturday, April 23, 2022: 

Political/Social Events – 

  •  France holds second round of Presidential Elections

  •  Slovenia holds National Assembly elections

Economic Reports/Events –

  • World Bank/IMF Meetings conclude in Washington DC

 

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