Economic calendar: Riksbank, Powell and earnings

• Second day of Powell’s hearings in Congress

• Riksbank expected to leave rates unchanged

• Cisco Systems and CVS Health among today’s earnings reporters

8:30 am GMT - Riksbank rate decision. Expected: 0.0%. Previous: 0.0%

10:00 am GMT - Euro area, industrial production for December. Expected: -2.3% YoY. Previous: -1.5% YoY

3:00 pm GMT - Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking Committee. Fed Chair will head to Congress today for the second day of semi-annual testimonies. Powell said yesterday that the US economy is in a very good place and that Fed is closely monitoring coronavirus outbreak. Central banker said that he does not see recession on the horizon.

3:30 pm GMT - DOE report on oil inventories. API estimates released yesterday signalled a massive 6 million build in crude oil inventories. However, the oil market ignored this reading and kept marching higher as investors hope that Russia will express its willingness for deeper output cuts. Having said that, today’s release may be overlooked as well. Gasoline inventories are expected to increase while distillates should decline.

Asian session

11:50 pm GMT - Japan, PPI inflation for January. Expected: 1.5% YoY. Previous: 0.9% YoY

Central bankers’ speeches

• 9:50 am GMT - ECB’s Lane

• 10:00 am GMT - Riksbank’s post-decision press conference

• 1:30 pm GMT - Fed’s Harker

• 7:10 pm GMT - RBNZ Governor Orr

Major US earnings releases

• Applied Materials (AMAT.US)

• Bunge (BG.US)

• Cisco Systems (CSCO.US)

• Centurylink (CTL.US)

• CVS Health (CVS.US)

• Marathon Oil (MRO.US)

• TripAdvisor (TRIP.US)