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In terms of volatility risks, this week is light with the focus on the looming G20 meeting,
What to watch for over the coming days:
Central Banks:
- Bank of Japan (BoJ) will release monetary policy minutes on Monday.
- Federal Reserve Chairman Powell’s speech due on Tuesday.
- Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) would announce rate decision early Wednesday.
- UK inflation report hearings scheduled for Wednesday.
Economic data:
- German CPI inflation numbers on Thursday.
- U.S. Q1 GDP report on Thursday and PCE inflation report on Friday, along with personal consumption and spending figures.
- Japan’s inflation reports due on Thursday.
- UK’s Q1 GDP figure on Friday.
- Eurozone inflation figures on Friday.
Geopolitics:
- U.S. national security adviser John Bolton and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev to visit Israel, and meet with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat on Monday.
- OPEC to hold its semiannual meeting on Tuesday. OPEC/N-OPEC meeting is set for Wednesday.
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to visit India for two days to discuss and bilateral and trade and security.
- The two-day long G20 meeting would begin on Friday, where President Trump and President Xi of China to hold a bilateral meeting on the sideline.
