🎄 Central Bank Week: Christmas Comes With Rate Decisions Across the Globe 🎁
Macro markets this week are juggling a perfect storm:
✅ Fed's highly anticipated decision this Wednesday — markets pricing in a 23bp cut
✅ ECB surprised by strong wage growth — hawkish risks rising
✅ RBA meeting on Tuesday: no move expected… yet
✅ China shocks with a $1T+ trade surplus YTD
✅ Japan Q3 GDP revised lower, but BoJ still projected to hike
✅ Flash data: US inflation expectations fall sharply → strengthens Fed pivot case
✅ Geopolitics heat up: Thailand-Cambodia airstrike, Japan-China jet incident
✅ Trump unveils new security strategy — pushes back on Europe & aligns with Moscow’s views








