Next Week At A Glance

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By Greg Peel

Jobs data are due out in the US tonight. With fears abating of a Fed rate rise in March, and the US dollar falling as a result, one presumes a strong jobs number will be poorly received.

China shuts down all of next week for the Lunar New Year break. Expect metal markets to go quiet. Also expect data distortion out of China for the next couple of months.

New Zealand is also closed on Monday and Japan on Thursday.

US data releases take a breather next week until Friday, when retail sales, inventories and consumer sentiment numbers are due. Janet Yellen will speak on Wednesday night, but is not expected to resolve rate hike speculation.

The first estimate of eurozone December quarter GDP is due on Friday.

In Australia we’ll see ANZ job ads on Monday, NAB business confidence on Tuesday and Westpac consumer confidence on Wednesday.

But the real action locally will come from a ramping up of the earnings result season. Releases are now becoming too numerous to offer highlights, although results from Commonwealth Bank ((CBA)) and Rio Tinto ((RIO)) will draw particular attention.
 

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