In the coming week, the European Central Bank (ECB) will unveil a new round of central-bank interest rate decisions.

The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing Index should be the focus of the coming week. The index has been showing contraction readings (below 50) since February.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rate-cut could come in September the soonest. A 25-basis-point cut is highly likely. Meanwhile, investors would still be interested in another set of major U.S. inflation data, which will be reported on Friday (August 29).

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to give a speech on Friday (August 22) at the Fed's annual central banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This should be the most important economic & financial event in the coming week.

A downbeat July non-farm payroll report has stirred up Expectations of a rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Investors' focus will turn onto major inflation data in the coming week.

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Though the U.K. recorded in June the fastest inflation rate in 17 months, its gross domestic product contracted for two consecutive months in April and May with persistent weakness in the labour market. The Bank of England is likely to start the third quarter with an interest-rate cut.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been exerting pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. However, considering strength in the labor market and the not-so-weak inflation rate, we do not think Powell will yield to Trump’s demand.

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