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Three Events Land in the Same Minute at 14:00 UTC. Your Filter Sees One of Them.
At 14:00 UTC the New York option cut rolls off $7.26bn of USD/JPY notional, the University of Michigan publishes September sentiment against a 51.0 consensus, and Lagarde takes a stage in Paris. CPI lands 90 minutes earlier. Two of the four are invisible to a calendar-fed news filter — and the core m/m consensus dispute we carried for two runs closes at +0.2%.
$2.86 Billion Expires at USD/JPY 154.00 and Spot Is at 154.08 — with CPI Ninety Minutes Before the Cut
The full 10:00 New York cut expiry ladder, with spot against it: $2.86bn at USD/JPY 154.00 with the pair trading 154.08, and EUR1.44bn at EUR/USD 1.1575 thirty pips below spot. Tokyo traded 53 pips and 12 pips; Britain doubled its GDP consensus for about four. Plus the oil audit we owed you — our own four published Brent prices in 72 hours, and two vendors $3 apart this morning.
The ECB's 25 Basis Points Is Priced — So Today's Real Release Is the Staff Projections at 12:45 UTC
A 25bp hike to 2.50% at 12:15 UTC is near-unanimous, so the decision is not the release. What is undecided is what the new staff projections say about inflation the ECB's own economists attribute to supply — and which of two numbers, both called core and 20bp apart, the Governing Council leans on. EUR/USD did eleven pips in Tokyo waiting.