Major Market Events This Week: The US Stock Earnings Season Comes to a Close, US and Japan Central Banks Successively Announce Interest Rate Decisions

July 27th. This week, the global market will face a dual test of macroeconomics and financial reports. According to ' weekly market events calendar, from July 27th to August 2nd, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan will successively announce interest rate decisions. Tech giants such as Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Qualcomm, ARM, and others will also intensively release their financial reports, potentially causing further market volatility.

On the macroeconomic front, at 2 a.m. on Thursday Beijing time, the U.S. FOMC will announce its latest interest rate decision, followed by Fed Chair Powell holding a monetary policy press conference at 2:30 a.m. On the same day, the U.S. will also release the initial jobless claims data up to July 25th. The market will focus on the Fed's latest statements on inflation, employment, and the interest rate path for the remainder of the year. On Friday, the Bank of Japan will announce its interest rate decision, and the Governor will subsequently hold a press conference, which may impact the yen, JGBs, and Asian risk assets.

Regarding U.S. stock earnings reports, this week marks the concentrated disclosure period for tech leaders. On Wednesday, SK Hynix will announce its second-quarter financial report, and Seagate Technology will hold an earnings conference call; on Thursday, Meta, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and ARM will successively release their performance reports or hold earnings conference calls; on Friday, Apple, Amazon, and Strategy will disclose their financial reports. Market focus will be on AI computing power, cloud services, advertising business, consumer electronics demand, and the chip cycle.

In the cryptocurrency market, there are still multiple token unlocks this week. On Monday, WAL will unlock 38.33 million tokens, and BTR will unlock 14.69 million tokens; on Tuesday, XPL will unlock 297 million tokens, and SIGN will unlock 208 million tokens; on Wednesday, HYPE will unlock 9.92 million tokens, and FF will unlock approximately 102 million tokens; on Saturday, SUI will unlock approximately 13.72 million tokens, and EIGEN will unlock 38.35 million tokens; on Sunday, ZAMA will unlock 280 million tokens, and ENA will unlock 111 million tokens.