Global Focus for Next Week: The Federal Reserve Leading the Three Major Central Banks to Negotiate Interest Rates: Apple Press Conference and Financial Reports Coming Together. Market consensus predicts that the Federal Reserve will remain silent next week. After the US Department of Commerce released September PCE data on Friday, renowned journalist Nick Timiraos, known as the "New Federal Reserve News Agency," said that the downward trend of inflation slowed down last month, but the inflation situation has recently improved, enough to allow Federal Reserve officials to maintain interest rates unchanged at next week's interest rate meeting.