Coming Week: Spotlight on Central Banks

Updated from 9:53 a.m. EDT

Recent signs of stability in global markets face a new set of challenges in the coming week, most notably Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve policy meetings.

In the wild-card department, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made some eye-opening comments Friday, characterizing his country's growth as "unstable, imbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable," Bloomberg reported.

The reaction to Wen's comments was notably muted Friday, which may suggest Asian markets' late-February rout was an isolated event. But similar to the time the premier's Chinese New Year holiday declaration about corruption and fraud spurred those massive losses in Shanghai, investors will have two days to mull Wen's latest comments, as detailed here. ...