In the absence of leading statistics, operators will focus on Monday on the evolution of the Ukrainian file and the intervention of the President of the Fed at the annual conference of the National Association for Business Economics.
Fed boss Jerome Powell to wait for Nike | Photo credits: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Sipa U/SIPA
If the big meeting of the Fed, that of the decision of monetary policy of the American central bank, is behind us, Jerome Powell, its president, will still be at the maneuver this Monday. He will speak, in fact, alongside Raphael Bostic, the head of the Atlanta branch, as part of the annual conference of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).
The opportunity to reconsider the choice of the Federal Reserve to raise, for the first time since 2018, its interest rates, by a quarter of a point. And even more to support the remarks made during his press conference, during which he indicated that the country’s economic situation was strong enough to absorb the seven rate hikes that the Fed intends to make this year.
Nike to report
No statistics are scheduled across the Atlantic. In Europe, we will have to make do with producer prices in Germany for the month of February.
Note that the Tokyo Stock Exchange is closed for the Spring Equinox Festival.
On the corporate side, biotech Theradiag presents its annual accounts. The big meeting, in this regard, is set after the close of Wall Street, with the results of the third quarter of the sports equipment supplier Nike.