This week SA will be dealing with power outages and Americans will head to the polls for the country’s mid-term elections. Here’s your guide.

Central banks in Europe, the UK, Japan, Egypt and Kenya are among those expected to announce policy decisions in the week ahead.

South Africa, Nigeria and the UK are expected to release consumer inflation figures and the US will give an update on housing data this week.

The US will host most African leaders at a three-day summit focusing on trade, investment, security and governance issues.

Over the coming days, South Africa will release unemployment, money supply, credit extension and trade figures.

Nigeria and South Africa will announce their interest rates this week. Will Gill Marcus need to raise the repo rate to keep the rand strong?

South Africa’s business confidence index readings and Stats SA’s March retail sales figures are due out later this week.

South Africa’s latest trade and credit extension data are the highlights of this week’s domestic data calendar. Here’s your economic guide.

Rates decisions from Africa’s two largest economies, developments in Ukraine and key US, European and Asian reports are likely to move markets.

From Stats SA releasing mining and manufacturing data to decisions on India’s latest inflation figures, here’s what to look out for this week.

In one of the final days of 2013, SA and Nigeria will release trade data and central banks in Angola and Zambia will announce rates decisions.

US Federal Reserve policymakers gather for their final meeting of the year, while key data releases around the world will keep markets focused.

From the release of SA’s latest current account figures to the US’s jobs report and China’s manufacturing sector, here are updates for the week ahead.

Tension in markets is likely to intensify as the US barrels towards its debt ceiling. Here is your guide to the events likely to drive numbers.

This week will bring a possible clarification of the US Federal Reserve Bank’s policy intentions, as well as key economic data from China.

America’s "fiscal cliff", the name given to the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax rises and spending cuts, will dominate the economic week.

In the last week of 2012, investors will be waiting for word from the United States on its tax rises and spending cuts due to begin next year.

Politics trump data this week as the ANC’s leadership conference gets underway, Japan’s old leadership is back in power and Europe waits on Italy.

The United States Federal Reserve’s final policy meeting of the year and a European Union summit will dominate the economic week ahead.

The central banks worldwide will take centre stage in the week ahead as they announce their latest rates decisions.