Economic calendar due from Asia today - another PMI from China

2145 GMT New Zealand terms of trade data for Q4

• expected 0.8%, prior 1.9%

2200 GMT Australia - CBA/Markit Manufacturing PMI for February (final)

• preliminary and prior here

2300 GMT Australia CoreLogic house prices for February

2350 GMT Japan Capex for Q 4 2019

• Capital spending expected -25.5% y/y, prior 7.1%
• Capital spending excl. software expected -2.0% y/y, prior 7.7%
• Company profits prior -5.3% y/y
• Company sales -2.6% y/y

0000 GMT Australia - Melbourne Institute monthly CPI inflation for XXX

• prior 0.3% m/m and 1.8% y/y

• Will confirm the RBA is still missing its inflation target, so what else is new?

0030 GMT Japan - Jibun Bank/Markit Manufacturing PMI (final) for February

• preliminary and priors here

0100 GMT New Zealand Treasury Monthly Economic Indicators

0145 GMT China - Caixin/Markit Manufacturing PMI for February

• expected showing 46.0 but I suspect only because it has not been updated since the appalling numbers out for the official PMIs over the weekend

• prior 51.1