PBOC sets USD/ CNY central rate at 7.1027 (vs. estimate at 7.1961)

• PBOC CNY reference rate setting for the trading session ahead.

PBOC is expected to set the USD/CNY reference rate at 7.1961 – Reuters estimate

• PBOC CNY reference rate setting for the trading session ahead.

Atlanta Fed Pres. Bostic:Inflation on track to 2% inflation but too early to claim victory

• Atlanta Fed Pres. Bostic speaking

Philadelphia Fed Pres. Harker does not talk about monetary policy or the economy

• Philadelphia Fed Pres. Harker speaking on economic education

Philadelphia Fed Pres. Harker speaking at the top of the hour

• ... But the topic may not lend itself to comments on policy

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker is speaking Monday

• Ahead of Chair Powell on Wednesday and Thursday

Bank of Japan Governor Ueda is speaking Tuesday, Japan time

• The topic listed is "Special Message" (yes, really)

PBOC sets USD/ CNY reference rate for today at 7.1020 (vs. estimate at 7.1906)

• PBOC CNY reference rate setting for the trading session ahead.

Japanese media headline: Japan gov't mulls declaring official end to deflation: sources

• Weekend headline getting another run

PBOC is expected to set the USD/CNY reference rate at 7.1906 – Reuters estimate

• The actual rate will be around 800 pts or so lower as the Bank continues to prop up the yuan

Its a big week coming up from Federal Reserve Chair Powell - speaking twice: March 6 and 7

• Powell will deliver his semiannual monetary policy testimony to a House committee on Wednesday and a Senate panel on Thursday.

Ahead of this weeks ECB meeting, Goldman Sachs says it expects a cut in June (from April)

• And a cut at every meeting for the remainder of the year from then

Fed's Kugler: Signs firms are adjusting prices slower, bolstering disinflation confidence

• Dovish comments from Kugler

The Fed's Daly: No comments on monetary policy

• No comments in her initial text

Fed monetary policy report: Inflation has slowed notably, remains elevated

• Comments in the Fed's monetary policy report

Comments from Waller and Logan focus on balance sheet

• No comments on the outlook for economy or interest rates

Fed's Goolsbee: Housing inflation is the thing that's really been weird

• Comments from the Chicago Fed President

BOE's Pill: My baseline is that the time for cutting rates is some ways off

• Comments from the BOE chief economist

Fed's Barkin: Yesterday was a high inflation report

• Comments from Barkin

Martin Schlegel a likely candidate to replace Swiss National Bank's Jordan

• Jordan has spent 27 years at the Swiss National Bank

SNB chairman Thomas Jordan to step down from his position at the end of September 2024

• Jordan says that "now is the right time for me to step down", without elaborating further

Federal Reserve speakers on Friday include Barkin, Waller, Logan, Bostic, Daly, Schmid

• It might be quicker to list who isn't speaking

Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill is speaking on Friday

Fed's Williams says the current business cycle is not a normal one

PBOC sets USD/ CNY reference rate for today at 7.1059 (vs. estimate at 7.2011)

• PBOC CNY reference rate setting for the trading session ahead.