Morning Juice – Europe Session Prep

Good Morning Traders.
It is Tuesday the 27th of May. Here is what to look out for today..

Sentiment
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda gave the yen a boost by clearly indicating his intention to continue raising the benchmark interest rate if the economy improves as expected Hedge funds are ramping up bets in die options market that the South Korean won will mirror the Taiwan dollar’s recent rally against the greenback. China’s industrial firms saw their profits increase at a faster pace in April, as a government trade-in program drove demand for manufactured products in the face of pressure from higher US tariffs. Japan lost its position as die world’s largest creditor nation for the first time in 34 years, despite posting a record amount of overseas assets.

Docket
02:00 ET
German GFK Consumer Sentiment
Forecast: -20.6, Prior: -20.0, Range: -18.0 / -21.0

02:45 ET
French CPI
YoY – Forecast: 0.8%, Prior: 0.9%, Range: 1.0% / 0.7%
MoM – Forecast: 0.6%, Prior: 0.1%, Range: 0.2% / -0.1%
HICP YoY – Forecast: 0.9%, Prior: 0.9%, Range: 1.0% / 0.7%
HICP MoM – Forecast: 0.7%, Prior: 0.1%, Range: 0.2% / -0.1%

Speakers
03:00 ET
ECB’s Villeroy speaks at presentation of annual report of banking supervisor ACPR

04:00 ET
Fed’s Kashkari delivers prepared remarks and participates in a policy panel at the Bank of Japan’s Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies conference in Tokyo.