[ForexNews]

The key event next week will be the FOMC announcement on Wednesday. While market is not expecting the Fed to make any change to the Fed funds rate, market participants will be paying close attention to the statement. There are also some important data releases in the US: GDP (Wednesday), personal income and spending (Thursday), ISM manufacturing and factory orders (Friday). The BoJ isscheduled to announce rates on Thursday. Market expects the BoJ to keep their policy rate unchanged. In the euro area, economic data releases of note include German CPI (Tuesday), German employment and euro area CPI (Thursday). Finally, the IMF and World Bank spring meetings take place over the weekend.