{"id":87531,"date":"2026-06-29T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/?p=87531"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:05:10","slug":"the-week-ahead-week-commencing-29-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/the-week-ahead-week-commencing-29-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead &#8211; Week Commencing 29 June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Markets closed the week out with a bit of a dip in sentiment on Friday as investors continued to take profit after the last few months&#8217; stellar run in stocks and monitored increasingly worrying updates of more hostilities in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geopolitics is again likely to feature heavily in market moves in the week ahead; however, we do have some key US data due out again, culminating in the big Non-Farms numbers on Thursday, as well as a raft of updates out of Portugal, where the great and good of the central banking world are meeting for the ECB\u2019s annual forum.<\/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>It is a quiet calendar day to start the week on Monday, with little on the calendar to influence markets. Updates out of the Middle East over the weekend, or further military action from both the US and Iran, could see some gapping again on the Asian open and add more volatility as the day progresses. Later in the day, we hear opening remarks from ECB President Christine Lagarde when she kicks off proceedings in Sintra.<\/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>It is another relatively quiet day on the macroeconomic calendar on Tuesday. The London session sees the release of German preliminary CPI data, while we have the first of some key US data in the New York session, with the CB Consumer Confidence data and the JOLTS Job Openings numbers out early in the session, along with the key Canadian GDP figures.<\/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 is again quiet on Wednesday, but the calendar livens up as we move through the day. The European session sees the release of EU CPI numbers, but the major focus will be on the ECB Forum in Sintra, where we hear from several central bank big hitters, including the ECB\u2019s Christine Lagarde, the Bank of Canada\u2019s Tiff Macklem, the Bank of England\u2019s Andrew Bailey, and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. The US day sees more data released, with the ADP Non-Farms numbers out as well as ISM Manufacturing PMI data.<\/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>It is Non-Farms Thursday this week due to the big US holiday on Friday, and that data will be the major focus for the markets. Swiss CPI data is also out during the London session, but expect the big US employment numbers to dominate sentiment in the final trading session.<\/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>It could be a relatively quiet day to finish the week, with US markets closed for the Independence Day holiday and nothing of note on the data front. We do hear from the ECB\u2019s Christine Lagarde again and the Bank of England\u2019s Andrew Bailey, which could see some moves in their respective markets in the latter sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Markets closed the week out with a bit of a dip [&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\/87531"}],"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=87531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87532,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87531\/revisions\/87532"}],"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=87531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icmarkets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}