Any/all of these events are reasons to ramp up the manipulations of markets….
1) Federal Reserve meeting concludes on Wednesday ( anyone think the Fed will raise rates?)
2) Bank of England on Thursday
3) Bank of Japan on Friday
4) US Q2 GDP and June Core PCE inflation ( both on Thursday)
5) Euro area Q2 GDP (Thursday)
6) Japan CPI (Friday)
7) China official PMI ( Friday)
8) Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Amazon ( accounting for 17% of the S&P 500) report earnings / first 2 on Wednesday, latter two on Thursday)
