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Read our pick of the top stories to look out for this week (25-29 January), and view our key company earnings schedule.
Michael looks back at this week’s price action, and ahead to the US central bank rate meeting, US Q4 GDP and UK unemployment. He also previews the latest numbers from Apple, Facebook and Tesla, and analyses the key technical levels on the US dollar, GBP/USD, EUR/USD, plus the FTSE 100, S&P 500, Dax and Nasdaq.
UK ILO unemployment rate (November)
Tuesday: In the spending review announced in November, chancellor Rishi Sunak forecast that unemployment could peak in the second quarter of 2021 at 7.5%, and to that he said that he would put aside £3bn to deliver a new three-year restart programme to get the longer-term unemployed back into work. While this was well received at the time, along with the furlough scheme which was extended into April, it is likely to have come too late, given that a lot of employers decided to make a start on reducing headco