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Japan, Eurozone GDP and CPI, Central Bank Decisions Headline Week Ahead

The Bank of Japan announces its rate decision and Governor Kazuo Ueda holds a monetary policy press conference on Thursday, the same day preliminary third-quarter GDP figures are due from France and the eurozone. Germany releases October unemployment and preliminary third-quarter GDP, while France and Germany publish preliminary October CPI. The week closes with China’s October official manufacturing, non-manufacturing and composite PMIs on Saturday and a PEC+ meeting on Sunday, when North America switches to standard time, pushing US market hours back by one hour.

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The clustering of BoJ, euro-area GDP and German/French CPI in a single week turns what are usually separate data points into a joint test of how far policy divergence can run. What matters is whether Japan's decision and Ueda's commentary align with a region whose growth and inflation prints may be softening, since that gap is what currency and rate markets have been pricing. The weekend's China PMIs and OPEC+ meeting then carry the signal into risk assets. Whether the BoJ's tone shifts relative to the euro-area data is the open question.

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