The economic calendar for the week ahead will be marked by the central bank meetings from the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan.

No major monetary policy announcements are expected at this week’s meeting.

However, investors will be closely studying the forward guidance from both the central banks for clues on forward guidance.

On the economic front, Australia will be releasing its quarterly inflation data this week.

Elsewhere, the GDP reports will dominate the headlines.

Both the United Kingdom and the United States will be releasing the advance GDP reports for the first quarter this week.

This is expected to bring some volatility to the markets.

Preliminary GDP Reports: The UK and the U.S.

The advance GDP reports for the first quarter from the United Kingdom and the United States will be released this week.

Both the reports will cover the preliminary report on the GDP data for the first quarter.

Investors will be closely looking at the report with GDP expected to remain broadly weaker for the reporting period.

Economists polled forecast that the U.S. first quarter GDP ending March 2018 saw the economy expanding at a pace of 2.2%.

This marks a significant weaker pace of growth compared to the 2.9% increase in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2017.

The GDP price index data is also expected to rise at a slower pace of just 2.2% compared to a 2.3% increase the month before.

Data from the UK is expected to show that GDP growth would be expected to slow.

Economists forecast that that UK’s GDP grew at a slower pace of 0.3%.

This marks a slower GDP growth of 0.4% in the fourth quarter of last year.

The recent slowdown in the UK in terms of the manufacturing, construction and services sector was also slowing during the first three months.