Briefings

Week InAdvance: September 19, 2022

Mon Sep 19 IOSCO-ISSB sustainability disclosure roundtable. Climate Week NYC begins. | Tue Sep 20 FOMC 2-day meeting. CFTC' energy/environment panel meets. UK markets open and Parliament in session after Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. | Wed Sep 21 SEC's Investor Advisory Committee meets. FOMC rate decision and Powell news conference. | Thu Sep 22 Australian public holiday for a day of national mourning following the death of the Queen. | Fri Sep 23 FSOC holds closed meeting. Autumn Equinox in northern hemisphere.

 

Federal Reserve policy makers are expected to approve another jumbo interest-rate increase during a two-day meeting that wraps up on Wednesday, as they struggle to tamp down demand. The Bank of England is likely to follow suit on Thursday at a meeting delayed for a week. 

 

UK markets and government agencies are closed on Monday as the country welcomes global dignitaries for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Sept. 8 at age 96. The services will be streamed and broadcast around the world.

 

Even as a US looming rail strike may be narrowly averted, dockworkers at the UK's Port of Liverpool are set to begin a two-week stoppage on Tuesday at the nation's fourth-biggest gateway.

 


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