“Investors, like the world, are desperate for a slowdown in US inflation in order to convince the Fed to tone down. Otherwise, markets will continue to be abused, jobs lost and the economy slowed down,” summarized this week Ipek Ozkardeskaya, analyst at Swiss Quote Bank.
The publication of the consumer price index for the month of September in the United States, at 2:30 p.m., will obviously be the event of the day on Thursday. The consensus formed by Bloomberg expects a slight slowdown in price increases over one year, from 8.3% to 8.1%, but an increase of 0.1 point over one month, from 0.1% to 0, 2%.
The markets will also have an eye on the inflation figures in Germany, anticipated, in harmonized European Union and final data, at 10.9% over one year and 2.2% over one month.
BlackRock gets the ball rolling
Still on the American agenda, jobless claims for the week ended October 8 are expected to rise slightly, to 225,000, against 219,000 the previous week. Finally, to follow, the weekly oil inventories of the Department of Energy, at 4:30 p.m. Washington will also host the meeting of finance ministers and central bankers of the G20.
On the securities side, the broker BlackRock will open the ball for the publication of the quarterly results of the major players in American finance. We will monitor, in France, those of the Lotery (FDJ).