The main focus this week is the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, one of the biggest events of central banks each year that begins today until tomorrow.
The topic of the conference is “Fostering a Dynamic Global Economy.” No major policy changes from the central bankers are expected as discussion should focus on financial stability and growth.
• Janet Yellen kicked off the event with opening speech. No surprise, she stuck to the topic of financial regulation as expected. The speech delivered nothing new on the economy and monetary policy
• Mario Draghi will speak this evening, low expectations too as the ECB has already said that there will be no change in policy stance until the September meeting.
Our view remains unchanged for one more interest rate hike this year in the US and the beginning of the balance sheet reduction.
We think that market expectations remain too low as probability for a December rate hike is only at 30%.
Aside that, US political risk has picked up again as President Donald Trump threatened to shut down the government in front of discussions on raising debt ceiling in Congress.
On the macro side, activity data for the Q3 was released this week.
• In Europe, data confirmed that economic outlook is definitely improving. The manufacturing sector remained very dynamic, as PMI rose to 57.4 in August from 56.6 in July
• US data was mixed, housing market slowed down. New home sales declined by 9.4% in July, falling to 7 months low.
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