{"id":8019,"date":"2025-06-23T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8019\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:58:14","slug":"the-week-ahead-markets-focus-on-powell-pce-and-geopolitical-tensions-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week Ahead: Markets Focus on Powell, PCE, and Geopolitical Tensions This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earnings (After-Market): KB Home (KBH)<\/p>\n

Tuesday, June 24<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earnings (Pre-Market): Carnival (CCL), TD Synnex (SNX)<\/p>\n

13:00 GMT: Case-Shiller Home Price Index (April)<\/p>\n

14:00 GMT: Consumer Confidence (June)<\/p>\n

14:00 GMT: Fed Chair Powell testifies before House Financial Services Committee<\/p>\n

Earnings (After-Market): FedEx (FDX) \u2013 EPS $5.85, Revenue $21.8B. Watch tariff-related volume and DRIVE plan updates. Also: AeroVironment (AVAV), BlackBerry (BB), Worthington Enterprises (WOR)<\/p>\n

Wednesday, June 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earnings (Pre-Market): General Mills (GIS), Paychex (PAYX), Winnebago (WGO)<\/p>\n

14:00 GMT: New Home Sales (May)<\/p>\n

14:00 GMT: Fed Chair Powell testifies before Senate Banking Committee<\/p>\n

Earnings (After-Market): Micron (MU) \u2013 EPS $1.59, Revenue $8.8B. Focus on AI server demand and memory pricing. Also: H.B. Fuller (FUL), Jefferies (JEF), MillerKnoll (MLKN), Steelcase (SCS), Worthington Steel (WS)<\/p>\n

Thursday, June 26<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earnings (Pre-Market): Acuity (AYI), Lindsay (LNN), McCormick (MKC), Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA)<\/p>\n

12:30 GMT: Jobless Claims (week ending June 21)<\/a>, GDP (Q1 final), Durable Goods Orders (May), Wholesale Inventories (May prelim)<\/p>\n

14:00 GMT: Pending Home Sales (May)<\/p>\n

Earnings (After-Market): Nike (NKE) \u2013 EPS $0.12, Revenue $10.7B. Traders watching China exposure, brand demand, and margins. Also: Concentrix (CNXC)<\/p>\n

Friday, June 27<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earnings (Pre-Market): Apogee Enterprises (APOG)<\/p>\n

12:30 GMT: PCE & Core PCE (May)<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Expected +2.3% and +2.6% YoY, respectively<\/p>\n

12:30 GMT: Personal Income & Spending (May)<\/p>\n

14:00 GMT: Univ. of Michigan Consumer Sentiment (revised, June)<\/p>\n

Central Bank Activity<\/p>\n

Powell\u2019s testimony Tuesday and Wednesday will dominate attention, as markets seek clarity on the Fed\u2019s reaction function after recent inflation stickiness and geopolitical escalation.<\/p>\n

Additional Fed commentary will come from Waller, Bowman, Cook, Hammack, Barr, Kugler, and Williams throughout the week.<\/p>\n

The policy message remains data-dependent, with the Fed\u2019s Summary of Economic Projections still pointing to two rate cuts in 2025.<\/p>\n

Technical Outlook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earnings (After-Market): KB Home (KBH) Tuesday, June 24 Earnings (Pre-Market): Carnival (CCL), TD Synnex (SNX) 13:00 GMT: Case-Shiller…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7566,9399,64,602,9400,9401,9402,3452,9403,135,9404,2274,8727,67,132,68,9405,9406],"class_list":{"0":"post-8019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-brent-oil","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cryptocurrencies","12":"tag-dow-jones","13":"tag-gold","14":"tag-home-page-1","15":"tag-indices","16":"tag-james_market_news","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-nasdaq-composite-index","19":"tag-sp-500","20":"tag-stocks","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-weekly","25":"tag-wti-crude-oil"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114732800670931377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}