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Newsquawk Weekly Economic Calendar - 31st August - 4th September 2026

ByNewsquawk Staff

Monday

Holiday: UK Summer Bank Holiday; desk remains open as usual
Data: Japanese Retail Sales (Jul), Chinese NBS PMIs (Aug), German Inflation Flash (Aug)
Events: BoJ Annual Review
Supply: EU

Tuesday

Data: Chinese RatingDog Manufacturing PMI (Aug), German Retail Sales (Jul), Global S&P Manufacturing PMI Final (Aug), EZ CPI Prelim (Aug), US ISM Manufacturing PMI (Aug), JOLTS Job Openings (Jul), Atlanta Fed GDP (Q3)
Events: US Midterm Primary Elections: Massachusetts
Speakers: Fed’s Barr; ECB’s Vujcic
Supply: Australia, Japan, Germany
Earnings: Dell, Palo Alto

Wednesday

Data: Australian GDP (Q2), South Korean Inflation (Aug), US Factory Orders (Jul), ADP Employment Change (Aug), New Zealand Terms of Trade (Q2)
Events: RBNZ Announcement, BoC Announcement
Speakers: BoJ’s Takata; RBNZ’s Bremen; BoC’s Macklem, Rogers
Supply: Australia
Earnings: Broadcom, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Snowflake

Thursday

Data: Chinese RatingDog Services PMI (Aug), Australian Trade Balance (Jul), Swiss CPI (Aug), GDP (Aug), Global S&P Services and Composite PMI Final (Aug), EU PPI (Jul), US Challenger Layoffs (Aug), Trade Balance (Jul), Jobless Claims, ISM Services PMI (Aug), Atlanta Fed GDP (Q3), Canadian Trade Balance (Jul)
Speakers: Fed’s Waller; RBA’s Jones, Hunter
Supply: Japan, Spain, France

Friday

Data: German Factory Orders (Jul), EZ Retail Sales (Jul), US Jobs Report (Aug), Canadian Jobs Report (Aug)
Speakers: BoE Governor Bailey; ECB’s Lane
Supply: Australia

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Context

A week of this shape, US payrolls on the Friday with ISM on both sides and two G10 rate decisions midweek, tends to compress conviction until the calendar clears, with desks historically reluctant to carry large dollar or duration positions through the clustered risk. The BoC and RBNZ announcements landing on the same session invites the usual cross-rate treatment: CAD and NZD typically trade off the relative tone of the two statements rather than either decision in isolation, and post-meeting press conferences have on previous occasions reversed the initial move. The sequencing matters for the Fed outlook: ISM manufacturing, JOLTS, ADP, and Challenger all print before the jobs report, a run that has tended to pre-position the market so that payrolls confirm or correct rather than surprise from a flat base. EZ and German inflation flashes early in the week frame the ECB speakers, and Waller's Thursday slot is notable given his prior form on labour-market framing directly ahead of the employment data. Bailey and Lane on Friday afternoon land after the US numbers, a slot that in past episodes has either amplified or faded the payrolls move in European rates into the close. The UK bank holiday Monday thins early-week liquidity, which has historically exaggerated moves in the Asian and early European sessions.

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