{"id":7164,"date":"2024-04-05T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T08:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/?p=7164"},"modified":"2024-04-05T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T08:20:44","slug":"blinken-ukraine-will-become-a-member-of-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/blinken-ukraine-will-become-a-member-of-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken: \u201cUkraine will become a member of NATO\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday Feeling<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Check out this week’s playlist here!<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Blinken: \u201cUkraine will become a member of NATO\u201d<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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Yesterday, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Ukraine will one day gain membership into Nato. This came as senior politicians met at the Nato headquarters in Brussels for bilateral meetings with Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters, Secretary Blinken subsequently said that “Ukraine will become a member of Nato. Our purpose at the summit is to help build a bridge to that membership”.<\/p>\n

Blinken\u2019s remarks comes as additional funding for Ukraine continues to be held up in the US House of Representatives. This foreign aid package – worth some $95bn – has $60bn earmarked for Ukraine however many Republican representatives are arguing that the package should be contingent on further funds being released for the US\u2019s southern border with Mexico.<\/p>\n

Speaking on this subject Blinken said that \u201cit\u2019s imperative that Congress move forward with a supplemental budget request that President Biden made for additional assistance to Ukraine.\u00a0 It\u2019s not only in Ukraine\u2019s interest; it\u2019s profoundly in our own.\u201d Its been reported that Nato are also considering a $100bn aid plan for Ukraine, though some countries are sceptical over whether this is a commitment that the bloc could meet.<\/p>\n

Foreign ministers and senior officials from NATO are meeting in Brussels this week as the organisation marks its 75th anniversary. The alliance has only recently welcomed Sweden into the bloc as the Nordic country comes the 32nd<\/i> country to join, ending two centuries of Stockholm\u2019s policy of neutrality.<\/p>\n

As leaders meet in Brussels against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, rising political tensions in the middle east and increasingly fragile relationships with Beijing, many are looking to spending commitments. Indeed, it\u2019s estimated that two thirds of the organisation\u2019s countries will meet this target, as political pressure is mounting on those that will fall short.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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US Labour Market Data<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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At 1330 this afternoon, attention will turn to the release of US labour market data. Here, the general market consensus is expecting a Nonfarms payroll print of 200,000 marking a slowdown from last month\u2019s figure of 275,000.<\/p>\n

If the consensus is realised, March\u2019s payrolls number would also mark the lowest reading in four months. While this may be indicative of some softening in the world\u2019s largest economy\u2019s jobs market, the US labour market continues to historically tight.<\/p>\n

Indeed, while analysts are pointing to a softer print it remains well above the 100,000 figure that last year Powell cited as a level which is in line with population growth while not overly impacting inflationary pressures.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, unemployment is expected to remain unchanged at 3.6%, while average hourly earnings are expected to have risen 0.3% – a slight uptick from last month\u2019s figure of 0.1%. Again, if this is realised, annual wage growth will be at its lowest level since June 2021.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Today\u2019s Data<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n
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Away from US labour market data, today attention will also be firmly on Eurozone retail sales which are released at 10:00. Here, retail sales are expected to have fallen 1.3% on an annualised basis and 0.4% on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n

Canadian unemployment data will also be released at 13:30 where the general market consensus is pointing to print of 5.9% up 10bps from February\u2019s figure.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday Feeling, statement from Blinken on Ukraine’s membership to NATO, release of US labour market data this afternoon, and what’s happening today.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"rp-language":[16],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morning-updates","rp-language-en_gb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7169,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"rp-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncourtfx.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rp-language?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}