##{"id":49471,"date":"2016-03-04T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/04\/next-week-at-a-glance-6\/"},"modified":"2016-03-04T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:00:26","slug":"next-week-at-a-glance-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/04\/next-week-at-a-glance-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Week At A Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a more comprehensive preview of next week's events, please refer to "The Monday Report", published each Monday morning. For all economic data release dates, ex-div dates and times and other relevant information, please refer to the <\/em>FNArena Calendar<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tonight’s US non-farm payroll release will be last before the Fed meets mid-month. Recently the actual quantum of jobs added and the unemployment rate have taken a back seat in importance for Wall Street behind wages growth, which feeds into inflation.<\/p>\n

Next week’s US data releases are thin on the ground.<\/p>\n

China will be in the spotlight nonetheless, releasing February trade data on Tuesday and inflation data on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The ECB will hold a policy meeting on Thursday. Since the ECB beefed up stimulus in December, eurozone data have been disappointing. Fading expectations of consistent US rate rises have also led to a weaker greenback, undermining sought after euro weakness. Mario Draghi has persistently pledged he will do “whatever it takes”.<\/p>\n

Australia will see the TD Securities inflation gauge, ANZ job ads, and the NAB business and Westpac consumer confidence surveys next week.<\/p>\n

With the local reporting season now behind us, everything grinds to a halt for the time being on the local stock front. But next week is the biggest in the calendar for the number of stocks going ex-dividend, including BHP Billiton ((BHP)). Not that BHP’s downgraded offering is anything to be excited about.
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