{"id":84908,"date":"2026-04-06T21:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=84908"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:48:32","slug":"the-week-ahead-week-commencing-06-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/the-week-ahead-week-commencing-06-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead &#8211; Week Commencing 06 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Markets remained highly volatile in the last week as the conflict in the Middle East raged on, with a major update from President Trump midweek advising that Iran would be hit hard for another two to three weeks, knocking investor confidence that a speedy end was in sight. Key US employment data that came in much better than expected; Non-Farms beating expectations by over 100k and the Unemployment Rate dropping by 0.1%, may filter through more strongly in the first couple of days of this trading week due to holiday-affected markets. Once again, geopolitical updates are expected to dominate the market this week; however, there are some major data releases due out of the US again, with the two major inflation updates set to come on consecutive days later in the week. Traders will be closely monitoring both the PCE and CPI numbers for any impact from the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is our usual day-by-day breakdown of the major risk events this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"82\" height=\"26\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Monday.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67655\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Easter Monday holidays in several major centres are again expected to see very thin trading conditions on Monday, which could see moves exacerbated as traders react to updates over the weekend, as well as any fresh updates during the trading day. The return of US markets in the final session of the day could add to volatility as they react to recent geopolitical updates, as well as Friday\u2019s Non-Farms update. ISM Services PMI data is also due out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"84\" height=\"26\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Tuesday.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67656\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday sees the resumption of \u2018normal\u2019 trading conditions, with most centres returning to action. There is little on the calendar in both the Asian and London sessions; however, US Durable Goods data is due out early in the day in the New York time zone, as is the Canadian Ivey PMI data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"104\" height=\"26\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Wednesday.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67658\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Asian session will see a strong focus on New Zealand markets on Wednesday, with the RBNZ set to update the market on its latest interest rate decision. It\u2019s a long wait for anything of note on the calendar for the rest of the day, with US Crude Oil Inventory numbers due out in the New York session, followed later in the day by the key FOMC Meeting Minutes release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"95\" height=\"26\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Thursday.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67659\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, the first two sessions of the day have little to offer on the calendar; however, key US data in the New York session will be a major focus. The Fed\u2019s favoured inflation indicator, the Core PCE Price Index, is due out alongside the GDP data and Weekly Unemployment Claims numbers, and expect the PCE print to have the greater impact, especially if off expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"71\" height=\"26\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Friday.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67660\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another busy calendar Friday to end the week. The Asian session will see a focus on Chinese markets, with the key CPI and PPI data releases due to fall midway through the session. Again, there is very little to note during the London session, but we have key data due out once New York opens. The US CPI data is out early in the day at the same time as the Canadian Employment numbers, while later in the day, the Preliminary University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment and Inflation Expectations data will be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markets remained highly volatile in the last week as the conflict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":75506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84909,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84908\/revisions\/84909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}