A light Economic and event calendar in Asia - China and Japan markets on holiday

China and Japan markets are closed for holidays, resulting in a light economic and event calendar across Asia. This absence of trading activity may lead to reduced liquidity and volatility in regional markets, impacting currency pairs such as USD/CNY and USD/JPY. The lack of significant economic data releases could limit market participants' risk appetite, potentially leading to subdued capital flows into Asian equities and currencies. Traders will be particularly attentive to any geopolitical developments or external economic indicators that could influence sentiment once markets reopen.

HIGH-impact news is typically a market-moving event with multi-pip or multi-percent intraday reactions. Examples include central bank rate decisions, major CPI/NFP releases, geopolitical shocks, mega-cap earnings beats/misses, and regulatory announcements. Traders typically position-reduce or hedge ahead of scheduled HIGH-impact events, and follow the wire in real time to react to unscheduled ones (war headlines, central-bank emergency statements, surprise corporate actions). The Trading News Terminal squawk box reads every HIGH-impact headline aloud the moment it hits the wire — so active traders don't have to stare at the feed.

Active traders typically follow a three-step workflow when a market-moving headline hits the wire: (1) read the headline on the terminal or hear it on the squawk box; (2) assess whether the news is already priced in (by checking intraday price action in the seconds before) or whether it's genuinely new information; (3) act — either entering a breakout position, fading an overreaction, or tightening stops on existing trades. Trading News Terminal's Pro plan delivers wire-grade headlines within seconds of the source, with automatic audio squawk on every HIGH-impact event, so the read-assess-act cycle never waits on a refresh button.