Read the key events to monitor for the week which starts on March 27, 2021.
Stocks could be buffeted by end-of-quarter trading in the week ahead, as pension funds and other big investors buy bonds and sell stocks to rebalance their portfolios. That could cause some market volatility, ahead of the long Easter holiday weekend.
Payrolls and PMIs dominate the economic agenda for the week ahead, with the ECB’s latest analysis and eurozone inflation also in focus. The March US employment report is released on Good Friday, a market holiday, and it is expected to show more than 600,000 jobs were created in the month. Markets will also be focused on President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, which he is expected to unveil in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
Markets will be meanwhile watching for news of further stimulus in the US in the form of additional infrastructure spending.
WEEK AHEAD CALENDAR
Monday
Earnings
Vaxcyte, Cal-Maine Foods
MacroUS: Dallas Fed manufacturing survey.Japan: Unemployment; Retail sales.
UK: money supply, mortgage approvals and consumer credit.
Tuesday
EarningsLululemon Athletica, Chewy, McCormick, BioNtech, FactSet, Blackberry, PVH
Monetary policyAtlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic; New York Fed President John Williams
MacroUS: S&P/Case-Shiller home prices; FHFA home prices; Consumer confidence.EU: Spain retail sales; Spain consumer price inflation; Italy price prices; Eurozone industrial and consumer sentiment; Germany consumer price inflation .
Wednesday
EarningsWalgreens Boots Alliance, Micron, Dave & Buster’s, Guess
Monetary policyBiden speech
MacroUS: ADP employment; Chicago PMI; Pending home sales; Atlanta Fed’s Bostic.Japan: Industrial production; Construction orders; Housing starts. China: NBS PMI manufacturing and non-manufacturing.EU: France consumer price inflation; Germany unemployment; Italy consumer price inflation; Spain current account; Eurozone consumer price inflation.UK: GDP, business investment and current account.
Thursday
EarningsCarMax
Monetary policyEuropean Central Bank Economic Bulletin
MacroUS: Initial jobless claims; Manufacturing PMI; ISM Manufacturing; Construction spending; Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker.Japan: Tankan surveyEU: Germany retail sales
Friday
Macro
US: Employment report. EU: France budget
Source: CNBC, Investopedia, Markit .