{"id":59951,"date":"2026-03-19T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalpowell-speech-and-pmi-data-headline-volatile-trading-week\/59951\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:12:13","slug":"econcalpowell-speech-and-pmi-data-headline-volatile-trading-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/econcalpowell-speech-and-pmi-data-headline-volatile-trading-week\/59951\/","title":{"rendered":"[EconCal]Powell Speech and PMI Data Headline Volatile Trading Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed Chair Powell speaks this <strong>Saturday<\/strong> at 10:30 am EST, a high-volatility event following <strong>Friday<\/strong>&#39;s 12:00 pm EST Monetary Policy Report. Today, <strong>Thursday<\/strong>, features Jobless Claims and Philly Fed at 8:30 am EST. Next <strong>Tuesday<\/strong> brings critical S&amp;P Global Manufacturing and Services PMIs at 9:45 am EST. Markets are monitoring Powell for hints on rate pauses amid sticky labor costs. Expect significant price action during <strong>Saturday<\/strong>\u2019s address and <strong>Tuesday<\/strong>\u2019s PMI data releases.<\/p>\n<p>Traders should hedge positions ahead of Powell\u2019s <strong>Saturday<\/strong> speech, which may trigger weekend gap risks. Monitor <strong>Tuesday<\/strong>\u2019s PMI data for signs of economic cooling; a miss in services could weaken the USD. Focus on $SPY and $QQQ volatility as the Fed clarifies its policy trajectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed Chair Powell speaks this Saturday at 10:30 am EST, a high-volatility event following Friday&#39;s 12:00 pm EST Monetary Policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"rank_math_schema_Article":[],"rank_math_focus_keyword":[],"rank_math_description":[],"financial_data_references":[],"stock_symbols_mentioned":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[3710,3711,3806,3807,4223],"class_list":["post-59951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-summary-snippets","tag-federal-reserve","tag-economic-calendar","tag-spy","tag-qqq","tag-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}