Economic calendar in Asia 15 January 2025 – ECB’s Lane speaking

The calendar lists New Zealand business confidence data. This was published yesterday and gave the $kiwi a small bid right before Trump ‘advisors’ were reported as considering gradual tariffs, which gave the kiwi more of a ramp higher:

• New Zealand Q4 business confidence jumped higher to +16% (prior -1%)
• Trump’s tariff team studying gradual hikes of 2 to 5% per month
• ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: USD swing on news, JPY swing on … not a lot

There isn’t a lot on the calendar likely to move major FX too much. Maybe Lane will surprise me, but I doubt it.

• Keynote speech by ECB board member Philip Lane at joint ECB/BoF/HKMA conference on “Europe, Asia and the Changing Global Economy”

Lane spoke earlier this week:

• ECB’s Lane says further monetary policy easing is likely

This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.