W — Week Ahead

Week Ahead: U.S. Jobs Report; Eurozone, Switzerland and South Korea CPIs; ECB Forum; India-Japan Summit; China-EU Talks; USMCA Deadline

28 June, 2026
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From the U.S. employment report and the annual central bankers’ gathering in Portugal to China-EU trade talks, here’s what you need to know for the week ahead.

Monday

🇯🇵 Japan May retail sales

🇰🇷 South Korea’s presidential office will announce three “megaprojects” expected to involve massive investment in a new semiconductor production cluster in the country’s southwest – Nikkei ⚠

🇨🇳 🇪🇺 Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao visits Brussels for high-level talks with EU officials on China-EU trade relations, market access, and ongoing tariff disputes. Through June 30 – Bloomberg ⚠

🇪🇸 Spain June CPI ⚠

🇪🇺 Eurozone June economic confidence

🇪🇺 Eurozone June consumer confidence

🇬🇧 U.K. May mortgage approvals

🇪🇺 The ECB Forum on Central Banking opens in Sintra, Portugal, with introductory remarks from President Christine Lagarde. Through July 1 – Bloomberg ⚠

🇬🇧 BOE chief Economist Huw Pill speaks on a panel at the Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan’s monetary policy dialogue in Tashkent – Bloomberg

🇳🇴 Norges Bank publishes its third-quarter borrowing plans for Norwegian government bonds and Treasury bills – Bloomberg

🇺🇸 US Supreme Court is expected to issue the final decisions of its term on cases including whether President Donald Trump can restrict birthright citizenship and whether he can oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Decisions on Monday and potentially another day this week – Bloomberg ⚠

Tuesday

🇨🇳 Evergrande Property Services, a unit of the bankrupt Chinese developer, holds its annual shareholders meeting in Guangzhou – Nikkei

🇨🇳 China June manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMIs ⚠

🇯🇵 Japan May unemployment rate

🇯🇵 Japan May industrial production

🇰🇷 South Korea May industrial production

🇦🇺 Australia RBA meeting minutes

🇫🇷 France June CPI ⚠

🇩🇪 Germany June CPI ⚠

🇩🇪 Germany June unemployment

🇮🇹 Italy June CPI ⚠

🇬🇧 U.K. GDP Q1

🇪🇺 🇬🇧 ECB Vice President Boris Vujcic, ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane, ECB Executive Board members Frank Elderson and Isabel Schnabel, and BOE Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden speak at the ECB Forum on Central Banking – Bloomberg ⚠

🇪🇺 ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone speaks in a pre- recorded on-stage interview at the Il Sole 24 Ore Payments Summit in Milan – Bloomberg

🇺🇸 U.S. June Conference Board consumer confidence ⚠

🇺🇸 U.S. May job openings ⚠

🇺🇸 Nike earnings

Wednesday

🇯🇵 🇮🇳 Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi visits New Delhi for a bilateral summit with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi through July 3 – Bloomberg ⚠

🌎 Worldwide June Manufacturing PMI

🇯🇵 Japan Q2 Tankan corporate sentiment index

🇰🇷 South Korea June trade data

🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, placing it at the center of negotiations on the bloc’s legislative agenda for the next six months.

🇪🇺 Eurozone June CPI ⚠

🌎 Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, ECB President Christine Lagarde, ECB Vice President Boris Vujcic, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone, ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane, BOE Governor Andrew Bailey and Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem speak at the ECB Forum on Central Banking – Bloomberg ⚠

🇺🇸 U.S. June ADP employment change

🇺🇸 U.S. June ISM Manufacturing ⚠

🌎 The deadline for the US, Mexico and Canada to decide whether to extend the USMCA trade agreement for another 16 years – Bloomberg

Thursday

🇦🇺 Australia May trade data

🇰🇷 South Korea June CPI ⚠

🇪🇺 Eurozone May unemployment

🇮🇹 Italy May unemployment

🇪🇸 Spain June unemployment

🇨🇭 Switzerland June CPI ⚠

🇪🇺 ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone participates in a discussion followed by a moderated conversation at the Generali Executive Series in Milan – Bloomberg

🇬🇧 BOE rate-setter Catherine Mann speaks in a fireside chat at the Natixis CIB Conference – Bloomberg

🇨🇭 The Swiss National Bank publishes its Financial Stability Report – Bloomberg

🇺🇸 U.S June weekly initial jobless claims

🇺🇸 U.S. June employment report ⚠

🇺🇸 Fed San Francisco President Mary Daly speaks in moderated discussion at Banco de España conference Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander, Spain – Bloomberg

🇺🇸 U.S. bond markets close early ahead of the Independence Day holiday ⚠

Friday

🌎 Worldwide June services and composite PMIs

🇫🇷 France May industrial production

🇪🇸 Spain May industrial production

🇪🇺 🇬🇧 ECB President Christine Lagarde, ECB Governing Council members Joachim Nagel and Gabriel Makhlouf, and BOE Governor Andrew Bailey speak at the Aix-en-Provence Economic Forum in France – Bloomberg

🇺🇸 U.S. markets closed in observance of the Independence Day holiday ⚠

Earnings

🇺🇸 #SPX | The forward 12-month P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is 20.1 – Factset Earnings Insight
This P/E ratio is above the 5-year average (19.9) and above the 10-year average (19.0).https://t.co/ioOmL2YMhm pic.twitter.com/niCUBZCQWx

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

Previews

🌎 #Weekahead | Warsh Makes Debut on the Global Stage With the Class of 2008 – Bloomberghttps://t.co/bIScDfn3nu pic.twitter.com/lmEl0CgeIv

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

US dominates news as 250th anniversary celebrations approach https://t.co/CRj7iDyrGh

— FT Economics (@fteconomics) June 28, 2026

🌎 #Weekahead | Week in Focus (29th June – 3rd July 2026): US NFP, US ISM Mfg PMI, EZ Flash CPI, and Swiss CPI – Newsquawkhttps://t.co/PVuqHD8zhU

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

*Focus on Asia

Takaichi visits India, Nadiem verdict, South Korea megaprojects https://t.co/e5nXYMx7Mk

— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) June 28, 2026

🇨🇳 🇪🇺 Exclusive: China, EU hold intensive trade talks; EU lacks sincerity, raising concerns of bilateral ties falling to freezing point: source – Global Timeshttps://t.co/4CkR82z6OK

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 26, 2026

🇨🇳🇪🇺 China Says It Can Withstand EU Trade Freeze, CCTV Account Says
– China can endure a further deterioration — or even a freeze — in economic and trade ties with the European Union if talks are treated as a mere formality, according to Yuyuantantian, a social-media account…

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

*Focus on Europe & UK

🇪🇺 The #weekahead 29 June – 05 July 2026 – European Parliamenthttps://t.co/0Jp4dgXQZP

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

🇪🇺 #Weekahead | Forward look: 29 June – 12 July 2026 – European Councilhttps://t.co/DJtFnivzot

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

The euro zone’s first signs of respite in inflation since the outbreak of the Iran war are forecast for data next week that will reflect the impact of subsiding energy costs https://t.co/cj0NU29Ipz

— Bloomberg (@business) June 26, 2026

🇬🇧 #Weekahead | Burnham to Reveal Devolution Push in First Speech, Times Reports – Bloomberghttps://t.co/ToYGq5xlXA

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

Focus on U.S. Economic Calendar

Wall Street’s week ahead: Jobs data, rate bets in focus as U.S. stocks close solid first half https://t.co/jj28WqmHM2

— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) June 26, 2026

The approach of the new Federal Reserve head might not always align with the standard his predecessor set. https://t.co/aXdaxnucLN

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 28, 2026

Top 10 Macro/Financial Charts of the Previous Week – w26

⚠ Top 10 Macro/Financial Charts of the Week – w26 (2026) ⚠

*HT @neilsethinew, @zerohedge#Stocks #AI #IPO #China #Inflation #Eurozone #Tradehttps://t.co/0TfVQIHsvp

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 27, 2026

What Happened in the World Economy Last Week – in Charts – w26 (Bloomberg)

🌎 Charting the Global Economy: US Spending Rises, Weather Looms – Bloomberghttps://t.co/G2Aaarwriu pic.twitter.com/GfjYP1kTON

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) June 28, 2026

*Note: Previous reports can be found here