{"id":435613,"date":"2026-08-07T03:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-friday-august-7-2026-fed-speaker-chinese-trade-data-435613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T03:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:10:17","slug":"economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-friday-august-7-2026-fed-speaker-chinese-trade-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-friday-august-7-2026-fed-speaker-chinese-trade-data-435613\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic and event calendar in Asia Friday, August 7, 2026 &#8211; Fed speaker, Chinese trade data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Alberto Musalem, St. Louis Fed president, speaks soon. He has recently turned more hawkish, now favouring earlier, gradual rate hikes over &#8220;later, larger, abrupt&#8221; moves, citing eroding inflation credibility after the Treasury selloff. He told the FT he&#8217;d preferred a 25bp hike at July&#8217;s meeting, where the Fed held rates 9-3.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 20px; padding: 0 0 0 19px; font-family: Inter, InterFallback, serif; list-style: outside; text-indent: -3px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 4px; padding: 0\"><a class=\"article-link\" href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/more-re-fed-s-daly-supported-decision-to-hold-rates-steady-at-july-fomc-meeting\/\" target=\"_self\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: rgba(140, 77, 223, 1); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s\" rel=\"follow\">Fed&#8217;s Daly supported decision to hold rates steady at July FOMC meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 20px; padding: 0 0 0 19px; font-family: Inter, InterFallback, serif; list-style: outside; text-indent: -3px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 4px; padding: 0\"><a class=\"article-link\" href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/fed-s-cook\/\" target=\"_self\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: rgba(140, 77, 223, 1); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s\" rel=\"follow\">Fed&#8217;s Cook: Fed running out of room for disnflation to return<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberto Musalem, St. Louis Fed president, speaks soon. He has recently turned more hawkish, now favouring earlier, gradual rate hikes over &#8220;later, larger, abrupt&#8221; moves, citing eroding inflation credibility after the Treasury&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}