PrintUS Equity Investors to Focus on Labor, Inflation Data This Week Alongside Micron Technology's Results
BY MT Newswires | ECONOMIC | 12/15/25 06:20 AM EST06:20 AM EST, 12/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- US equity investors will focus on labor market and inflation data while tuning in to the Federal Reserve speeches and keeping an eye on key corporate results this week, implying no dearth of stimulus as the year slowly comes to a close.
* Key quarterly earnings reports due include Micron Technology
* Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last week, after the central bank cut interest rates for the third consecutive time, that no rate hikes are currently on the policymakers' agenda. Investors would want to ensure that the status quo remains following a deluge of data, including pending figures from the length of the federal government shutdown.
* Non-farm payrolls, retail sales, S&P Global PMIs, consumer price inflation, jobless claims, Michigan consumer sentiment and inflation expectations, and ADP employment change are among the data due this week.
* "High data risk driven by low conviction over the estimates will hit markets on Tuesday and Thursday," according to a Scotiabank note on Friday.
* Additionally, the Bank of Japan's monetary policy meeting will be closely monitored this week, given the likelihood that a hawkish move could potentially impact the US Treasury yields, in particular the 10-year. "The [US] 2-10 yield spread closed north of 66 basis points for the first time in 2025 on Friday, the steepest the yield curve has been since early 2022," according to a note from Saxo Bank on Monday.
* Fed speak scheduled for this week includes New York Fed President John Williams, whose comments late last month signaled to the market that Powell is supportive of the December rate cut. Other speakers the market will listen closely to include the Fed Governors Christopher Waller and Stephen Miran.
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