Morning Juice – Europe Session Prep

Good Morning Traders.
It is Monday the 16th of February. Here is what to look out for today.

Sentiment
Japan’s economic output in the fourth quarter of 2025 was much weaker than expected, registering anemic growth after a deep contraction in the previous period. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said the US central bank can cut interest rates further if inflation is on track to reach its 2% target, but that’s not currently the case Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Europe’s fate is intertwined with the US while faulting the continent for what he said was a drift away from their shared Western values. John Hurley, the Trump administration’s top sanctions official, is set to leave his post after friction with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to people familiar with the matter US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of file country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices.

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Eurozone Industrial Production
YoY – Forecast: 1.3% | Prior: 2.5% | Range: 2.7% / 0.5%
MoM – Forecast: -1.5% | Prior: 0.7% | Range: -0.2% / -2.4%