Week inAdvance
Monday | Mar 7, 2022
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Mon Mar 7 China's NPC continues. CERA Week in Houston. | Tue Mar 8 International Women’s Day. Apple new product event. | Wed Mar 9 SEC meets on cyber, AI, governance. | Thu Mar 10 February U.S. CPI data and weekly jobless claims. ECB rates decision, Lagarde briefing. | Fri Mar 11 G7 meets on Ukraine situation. 2nd anniversary of WHO declaring Covid-19 a pandemic. | Sun Mar 13 U.S. daylight savings starts, clocks go forward one hour.
The Fed will get its final CPI reading before the March policy meeting, at a time price rises are outpacing Americans’ income gains.
China’s top legislative body kicks off a week of deliberations, and South Korea votes for a new president.
The massive CERA Week energy conference kicks off in Houston with crude oil prices at an 11-year high.
All times are Eastern and subject to change.
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Thursday, Mar 10
INVESTORS market practices industry update
10:30 - 11 am
Come when you can. Leave when you have to. Take your calls.
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Wednesday, Mar 9
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Meeting to consider whether to propose amendments regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure.
Thursday, Mar 10
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Investor Advisor Committee meeting includes a panel discussion regarding ethical artificial intelligence and “roboadviser” fiduciary responsibilities, and a panel discussion regarding cybersecurity.
Thursday, Mar 10
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
The consumer price index – a key measure of U.S. inflation – is poised to rise significantly in February, further eroding workers’ paychecks and putting additional pressure on policy makers to act. The CPI is expected to rise 0.8% from the prior month and be up nearly 8% from a year earlier.
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Tuesday, Mar 8
HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Hearing on The Inflation Equation: corporate profiteering, supply chain bottlenecks, and Covid 19.
Tuesday, Mar 8
SENATE BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Hearing to examine mandatory arbitration in financial service products.
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Monday, Mar 7
BEIJING, China
China’s National People’s Congress continues its annual gathering. Besides discussing the turmoil resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Chinese lawmakers will release the country's latest economic goals and fiscal spending plans. Policy makers at the NPC, which runs concurrently with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, have also stressed food security as a key issue for the nation this year, particularly after some crop prices rocketed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Monday, Mar 7 -
Tuesday, Mar 8
NANTES, France
Monday, Mar 7 -
Thursday Mar 10
STRASBOURG, France
European Parliament Plenary.
Tuesday, Mar 8
GENEVA, Switzerland (hybrid)
Tuesday, Mar 8
VIRTUAL
Tuesday, Mar 8 -
Wednesday, Mar 9
ZURICH, Switzerland (hybrid)
Tuesday, Mar 8 -
Wednesday, Mar 9
SYDNEY, Australia
The AFR Business Summit, with speakers including Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe.
Wednesday, Mar 9
SOUTH KOREA
South Koreans go to the polls to decide a presidential contest that has been tainted by scandal, family drama and insinuations of corruption, criminality and nepotism, and fraud.
Thursday, Mar 10
FRANKFURT, Germany
Eurozone ECB President Christine Lagarde holds a press conference after the first major central bank policy meeting since Russia’s offensive on Ukraine was started.
Thursday, Mar 10 -
Friday, Mar 11
VERSAILLES, France
European Council informal summit of heads of state and government on the European growth and investment model for 2030. On the agenda is a wave of applications from former Soviet states to be fast-tracked into EU membership, a move framed as a way to show solidarity with Ukraine but one that is unlikely to be fulfilled, not least because it is fraught with complexity.
Friday, Mar 11
BRUSSELS, Belgium
G7 foreign ministers will speak about the situation in Ukraine. Will exchange views on response going forward, affirm cooperation.
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Monday, Mar 7 -
Tuesday, Mar 8
WASHINGTON DC
Institute of International Bankers 2022 Annual Washington Conference. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Rostin Benham will participate in a fireside chat on Monday.
Monday, Mar 7 -
Wednesday, Mar 9
HOUSTON, Texas
CERA Week kicks off in Houston at a time of sky-high crude oil prices.
Tuesday, Mar 8
VIRTUAL
Apple holds its first product unveiling of 2022, kicking off what may be its biggest year ever in terms of new devices. A low-cost iPhone SE and updated Macs with Apple-made chips could be introduced.
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