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...US Supreme Court: America’s highest court will hear oral arguments on the abortion pill, which could limit access to the medication less than two years after Roe Vs Wade was overturned....
...Blinken: US secretary of state Antony Blinken will be in Cairo to meet the UAE’s top international co-operation minister, the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and a top Palestinian...
...Events: Joe Biden will make campaign stops in Arizona as he aims to gain support ahead of the US presidential election in November....
...Manufacturing: Activity in the US manufacturing sector is expected to have remained in contractionary territory in February....
...One of the world’s biggest paper companies has sparked a bidding war for DS Smith, with International Paper confirmed to be in talks about a potential deal that would value its UK rival at about £6.8bn including...
...the rise in the previous month....
...Events: US President Joe Biden will make campaign stops in Nevada and Arizona, as he hopes to rally support in the swing states....
...US consumer data: The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment index is published, with forecasts unchanged at a flat reading of 76.9 in March....
...Biden: The US president will be in Milwaukee, the most populous city in the key battleground state of Wisconsin, to make an announcement on infrastructure investments....
...Fedspeak: Philip Jefferson, the Federal Reserve’s vice chair, will speak about the US economic outlook and monetary policy at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington....
...Services sector: An index from ISM tracking activity in the US services sector is expected to have remained in expansion territory in February, while edging down to a reading of 53 from 53.4 in January,...
...US employment: Economists expect official data to show that the US economy added 200,000 jobs in February, down from 353,000 in December and for the unemployment rate to remain at 3.7 per cent....
...US trade deficit: US government data is expected to show the trade deficit widened to $63.5bn in January from $62.2bn in December, according to economists polled by Reuters....
...Labour market: Data due later this morning are expected to show job openings eased to 8.9mn in January from December’s three-month high....
...On an annual basis, the core figure is expected to tick down to 2.8 per cent from 2.9 per cent in December....
...Inflation: Economists expect January’s US consumer price index to come in at 2.9 per cent, down from 3.4 per cent in December....
...US GDP: Economists expect the second estimate for fourth-quarter economic growth to come in at 3.3 per cent, unchanged from the advance figure, and down from a 4.9 per cent increase in the third quarter....
...Lowe’s: The retailer is forecast to report an 18 per cent revenue decline to $18.4bn in the fourth quarter, as consumers rein in spending on home improvement projects....
...Fedspeak: Lorie Logan, president of the US Federal Reserve’s Dallas branch, will participate in a keynote conversation at a summit on Texas transportation....
...Eli Lilly: The maker of weight loss drug Mounjaro is expected to report this morning that revenue increased more than 22 per cent year-on-year to $8.9bn in the three months that ended in December....
...US inflation: Economists expect the US core consumer price index to have increased 0.3 per cent in February....
...Its revenue is expected to have declined by more than 6 per cent on an annual basis to $10.3bn in the three months to December....
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