📊✨ Quarter-End Market Watch ✨📊 Today marks the final day of Q3 – a period often filled with heightened volatility ⚡ as funds rebalance and liquidity thins. 🇯🇵 Data from Japan showed sharp weakness in industrial production and retail sales, limiting the BoJ’s room for aggressive hikes despite hawkish September minutes. 🇨🇳 Chinese PMIs mostly beat expectations ✅ thanks to recent stimulus, though large state-owned manufacturers remain just under the 50 threshold. 🇦🇺 The RBA kept rates steady at 3.6% 🏦. Still, AUD/USD is pushing higher as policymakers flagged rising inflation risks and a firm economic backdrop. 🗓️ Key Events Today (BST) 07:00 🇬🇧 UK – Q2 GDP (y/y) 1.2% forecast (prev. 1.3%) 07:00 🇩🇪 Germany – Retail Sales (m/m) +0.5% forecast (prev. -1.5%) 07:45 🇫🇷 France – CPI (y/y) +1.3% forecast (prev. 0.9%) 08:00 🇨🇭 Switzerland – KOF Barometer 97.1 forecast (prev. 97.4) 08:55 🇩🇪 Germany – Unemployment 6.3% forecast (prev. 6.3%) 09:00 🇵🇱 Poland – CPI (y/y) +3.0% forecast (prev. 2.9%) 10:30 🇪🇺 ECB’s Christine Lagarde speaks 13:00 🇩🇪 Germany – CPI (y/y) +2.3% forecast (prev. 2.2%) 14:00 🇺🇸 USA – House Price Index (m/m) 0.0% forecast (prev. -0.2%) 14:45 🇺🇸 USA – Chicago PMI 43.1 forecast (prev. 41.5) 15:00 🇺🇸 USA – Consumer Confidence 96 forecast (prev. 97.4) ⚠️ With the looming risk of a US government shutdown 🇺🇸, this could be one of the last macro updates before Friday’s crucial NFP report. 💡 Stay alert – quarter-end flows often bring sudden moves across FX, stocks, and commodities! 🚀