This year’s G20 Summit will be hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Abe in Osaka Japan. It will start on Friday, June 28th 2019 at 0915 local time with a pre-summit press conference and end on Saturday, June 29th 2019 at 1345 local time with a closing session. While several key global issues are on the agenda, forex traders will likely focus on bilateral sidelines meeting which will be held throughout the summit.

Central bankers and finance ministers of the G-20 will meet in Buenos Aires this weekend, on July 21st through July 22nd. The G-20 controls 85% of the global economy and this marks the first gathering since US President Trump imposed tariffs on the European Union and on China, which sparked retaliation in kind.