{"id":102281,"date":"2025-10-04T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102281\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:29:10","slug":"no-nfp-and-hamas-accepts-the-deal-but-market-wrap-for-the-north-american-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/102281\/","title":{"rendered":"No NFP and Hamas accepts the deal, but&#8230; \u2013\u00a0 Market wrap for the North American session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"eg4ro\">The political spotlight this weekend is on <b>Japan<\/b>, where the <b>LDP Presidential Election (Friday, Oct 3)<\/b> continues to ripple through markets. Polls show a tight race between <b>K\u014dz\u014d Izumi<\/b> and <b>Sanae Takaichi<\/b>, a contest that could shape Japan\u2019s fiscal stance, defense policy, and BoJ-government dynamics. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cutbm\">JPY traders will be watching closely for outcomes and any coalition maneuvering.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bmtmq\"><b>Also, keep an eye on the Israel-Hamas headlines.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1i8pd\">In Europe, a <b>trio of ECB speeches<\/b> kicks off the week, with <b>De Guindos (03:15 ET)<\/b>, <b>Lane (04:00 ET)<\/b>, and <b>Lagarde (13:00 ET)<\/b> all on deck. Markets will parse for guidance after sticky September inflation.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4saph\">At 04:30 ET, the <b>Sentix Investor Confidence (Oct)<\/b> is expected to rebound slightly from <b>-9.2<\/b>, while at 05:00 ET, <b>Eurozone retail sales<\/b> are seen flat at <b>+0.1% MoM<\/b>, still weak on a yearly basis (-2.2% YoY).<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4orog\">Sterling gets a highlight at 13:30 ET with <b>BoE Governor Bailey\u2019s speech<\/b>, his first remarks since the dovish shift at the last MPC.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dvmbv\">The APAC session rounds out with business and consumer sentiment data: <b>NZ Business Confidence (Q3)<\/b> at 17:00 ET, <b>UK BRC retail sales (Sep)<\/b> at 19:01 ET, and <b>Australia\u2019s Westpac Consumer Confidence (Oct)<\/b> at 19:30 ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The political spotlight this weekend is on Japan, where the LDP Presidential Election (Friday, Oct 3) continues to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-102281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}