Main Fundamental News Events This Week: August 3–9, 2026 – Building Toward NFP Friday
Main Fundamental News Events This Week: August 3–9, 2026 – Building Toward NFP Friday
The week commencing Monday, August 3, 2026, delivers a classic mid-summer economic calendar dominated by US data releases that will shape near-term views on growth, the labour market, and Federal Reserve policy. With markets still digesting the recent coordinated US-Japan yen intervention and ongoing questions around the path of interest rates, this week’s sequence of reports offers a progressive build-up of information, culminating in the Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) report on Friday. That single release remains the highest-impact event of the week and is likely to drive most of the volatility across currencies, equities, and bonds.
Monday, August 3: Manufacturing Strength Sets the Tone
The week opened with a clear positive signal from the US manufacturing sector. The final S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI for July came in at 53.9, while the more closely watched ISM Manufacturing PMI surged to 55.6. This marked a solid rise from June’s 53.3 and...