Gillian Bowen

To the European markets, the main indexes recorded weekly losses as investors assessed tentative signs of renewed US-Iran peace talks.

There were also worries about the disruption of energy supplies by the Middle East conflict and a warning from the Bank of England that global stocks could face pressure.

The continent-wide FTSE Euro First 300 index fell 0.51% and the UK FTSE 100 was 0.8% lower.

Higher oil prices pressured airline shares.

Heavyweight banks Barclays and HSBC fell 0.9% and 1.3% respectively.

Pharma giant AstraZeneca slipped 3.7% and PeerGSK dropped 2.7%.

Tech shares gained 1%.

Now it's time for The Watch List, and there's lots on this week.

In Australia, the big one is inflation stats out on Wednesday.

CBA economists are forecasting a rise of 4.6% year-on-year for the month of March.

The CPI figures will have some say into what happens to interest rates with the RBA tipped to raise rates next week.

We also have quarterly earnings.

Some updates from Woodside on Wednesday, Woolies on Thursday, as well as half-year results from ANZ on Friday.

In the US, it's a huge week in earnings with the likes of Visa and Coca-Cola on Tuesday.

The tech giants of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft on Wednesday and Apple on Thursday.

There's a US Times, of course.

The US Federal Reserve is also making its call on interest rates on Wednesday when it's tipped to hold rates steady.

And the Senate vote to advance Kevin Walsh's nomination as Federal Reserve Chair will take place on the morning of April 29 US time.

And now it's time for our One More Thing segment.

And a shout out to James, who may be having a day off today, but he's still found one more thing for us.