🌍 Market-Moving News
🧠 AI Event Risk Meets Macro Stress
Nvidia GTC arrives as markets remain pressured by inflation, rates, and slower growth concerns. The key question is whether AI enthusiasm can offset a still-fragile macro backdrop.
🏦 Fed Decision Dominates the Week
The March FOMC meeting is the central macro event, with markets focused on whether policymakers reinforce a higher-for-longer stance after recent inflation pressure.
🛒 Consumer and Housing Tone Stay Fragile
Recent spending and housing-related signals continue to point to a cautious consumer backdrop, keeping domestic demand under close scrutiny.
🤖 Physical AI and Automation Stay in Focus
Industrial automation, robotics, and infrastructure themes remain relevant as companies look for productivity gains in a tougher cost environment.
🪙 Crypto Remains Under Pressure
Bitcoin and crypto-linked risk assets continue to struggle against a backdrop of tighter financial conditions and reduced rate-cut optimism.
📊 Key U.S. Economic Data
Week of March 16 (ET)
Monday, March 16
8:30 AM | Empire State manufacturing survey (March) | Forecast: 4.1 | Previous: 7.1
9:15 AM | Industrial production (Feb.) | Forecast: 0.1% | Previous: 0.7%
9:15 AM | Capacity utilization (Feb.) | Forecast: 76.2% | Previous: 76.2%
Tuesday, March 17
10:00 AM | Pending home sales (Feb.) | Forecast: -1.0% | Previous: -0.8%
10:00 AM | Home builder confidence index (March) | Forecast: 37 | Previous: 36
Wednesday, March 18
8:30 AM | Producer price index (Feb.) | Forecast: 0.3% | Previous: 0.5%
8:30 AM | Core PPI (Feb.) | Forecast: -- | Previous: 0.3%
8:30 AM | PPI year over year | Forecast: -- | Previous: 2.9%
8:30 AM | Core PPI year over year | Forecast: -- | Previous: 3.4%
10:00 AM | Factory orders (Jan.) | Forecast: 0.2% | Previous: -0.7%
2:00 PM | FOMC interest-rate decision
2:30 PM | Fed Chair Powell press conference
Thursday, March 19
8:30 AM | Initial jobless claims (March 14) | Forecast: 215,000 | Previous: 213,000
8:30 AM | Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey (March) | Forecast: 11.0 | Previous: 16.3
10:00 AM | Wholesale inventories (Jan.) | Forecast: -- | Previous: 0.2%
10:00 AM | New home sales (Jan.) | Forecast: 715,000 | Previous: 745,000
Friday, March 20
None scheduled
⚠️ For informational purposes only. Not financial advice.
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