Week ahead — Netflix, PPI, Fed speeches
Market calendars this week include PPI and core‑PPI, a slate of Fed speeches, and Netflix earnings among the corporate highlights investors are watching. (fxempire.com). The FXEmpire preview places Netflix alongside macro datapoints that could drive short‑term market moves. (fxempire.com)
Wall Street’s next big tests arrive this week: producer inflation on Tuesday, a run of Federal Reserve speeches through Friday, and Netflix earnings on Thursday. (bls.gov) (federalreserve.gov) (ir.netflix.net) The Bureau of Labor Statistics is scheduled to publish the March 2026 Producer Price Index at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, April 14. That report tracks prices businesses receive for goods and services before those costs fully reach consumers. (bls.gov) The inflation backdrop shifted on Friday, April 10, when the Consumer Price Index showed headline prices rose 0.9 percent in March and 3.3 percent from a year earlier, while core inflation, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.2 percent on the month and 2.6 percent on the year. Gasoline jumped 21.2 percent in March and accounted for nearly three quarters of the monthly increase in the all-items index. (bls.gov) Federal Reserve officials are also on the calendar almost every day this week. Governor Stephen I. Miran is scheduled to speak on April 14 and April 17, Governor Michael S. Barr on April 15, Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman on April 16, and Governor Christopher J. Waller on April 17. (federalreserve.gov) Those appearances land two weeks before the Federal Open Market Committee’s next rate-setting meeting on April 28 and 29, with the Beige Book due on April 15. The minutes from the March 17 and 18 meeting were released last week, on April 8. (federalreserve.gov) Netflix is scheduled to post first-quarter 2026 financial results on Thursday, April 16, at about 1:01 p.m. Pacific Time, followed by a management interview at 1:45 p.m. Pacific. The company said investors can watch the discussion on its investor relations channels. (ir.netflix.net 1) (ir.netflix.net 2) Other U.S. data on the calendar include industrial production on Thursday, April 16, at 9:15 a.m. Eastern. A March retail sales release that had been scheduled for April 16 was rescheduled by the Census Bureau to Monday, April 21, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. (federalreserve.gov) (census.gov 1) (census.gov 2) The week’s setup is straightforward: investors will get one fresh read on pipeline inflation, several chances to parse central bank language, and one of the market’s biggest technology earnings reports before the next Federal Reserve meeting comes into view. (bls.gov) (federalreserve.gov) (ir.netflix.net)
