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Key events:         UK – Retail Sales (MoM) (Feb) UK – Composite PMI    UK – Manufacturing PMI    UK – Services PMI   Eurozone – EU Leaders Summit      USA – Core Durable Goods Orders (MoM) (Feb) Canada – Core Retail Sales (MoM) (Jan) The Bank of England raised its rate by 25 points to 4.25%, just in line with market expectations. For the third meeting in a row, two members voted to maintain rates, but they were opposed by seven more hawkish members.

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Key events:       Australia – Retail Sales (MoM) (Dec)    Canada – GDP (MoM) (Nov) USA – CB Consumer Confidence (Jan)   New Zealand – Employment Change (QoQ) (Q4)   Central banks will be in focus this week with meetings of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed), European Central Bank (ECB), and Bank of England (BoE), each expected to keep raising rates.

Key events: Canada – BoC Interest Rate Decision   USA – Crude Oil Inventories The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried about various problems, thereby sparing our local central banks from this excitement. The immediate concern at the BIS is that central banks will have to conduct anti-crisis measures in markets suffering from rising interest rates, which will diminish the effect of efforts to curb inflation, leading to shrinking monetary liquidity and debt portfolios.

Key events: Eurozone – ECB President Lagarde Speaks   U.S. stock indices were up in trading on Friday but finished the week in the red, and the drop in Nasdaq Composite became the maximum since January. Most importantly, the market was supported on Friday by the statistical data on unemployment in the USA for October, which showed that the labor market remains strong, but began to lose momentum to growth.

Key events:   UK – Construction PMI (Oct) Eurozone – ECB President Lagarde Speaks      USA – Nonfarm Payrolls (Oct)   USA – Unemployment Rate (Oct)   Canada – Employment Change (Oct) Canada – Ivey PMI (Oct)   Bank of England (BoE) aggressively raised its policy rate by 75 basis points to 3.00% in yesterday's monetary policy announcement.

Key events: USA - CB Consumer Confidence (Oct)   Decreasing liquidity levels in the treasury market are beginning to worry the U.S. Treasury Department. Back on October 14, U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen announced the possible start of redemption of some of its old debt obligations.

Key events: US - Core CPI (MoM) (Sep) US - CPI (YoY) (Sep) US - CPI (MoM) (Sep) US - Initial Jobless Claims US - Crude Oil Inventories The dollar weakened yesterday amid uncertainty over the Bank of England's willingness to continue supporting the country's bond market, which has become a key pressure point for the global financial sector.