The Bank of Japan will hold its first policy meeting under the stewardship of Kazuo Ueda next week, although it’s looking unlikely that he will kick things off with a bang. The focus may therefore quickly shift to GDP numbers out of the United States and Eurozone where both economies are expected to have dodged a recession, while the all-important PCE inflation report will be one of the final pieces of the rate puzzle before the Fed’s May decision.

0:00 Intro
0:20 Bank of Japan
2:39 Eurozone GDP
3:35 EU Flash CPI
4:31 Euro
4:57 US Data
6:41 US Dollar

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