Economic data due from Asia today ... and two central bank speakers

We get Fed speaker today during the Asian timezone, I wonder if he will elaborate on the FOMC minutes? (But we may never know ... read on)

For the chronologically minded ...

2200GMT - New Zealand - Government financial statements ... more from the rock stars

2240GMT - Australia - Reserve Bank of Australia - Speech by Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor

  • Title is Recent Trends in Australian Capital Flows
  • Debelle speaking at the 2017 Australian Financial Review Banking and Wealth Summit in Sydney

2350GMT - Japan - International Securities Flows for the week ended March 31

0000GMT - Federal Reserve Bank of New York Executive Vice President Simon Potter

  • His speech is titled "Money Markets at a Crossroads: Policy Implementation at a Time of Structural Change"
  • Speaking in Los Angeles, at UCLA
  • The text of his speech is expected, but as for any economy/policy pertinent Q&A, ... the event is closed to media, so we could well remain in the dark

0145GMT - China - Caixin services and composite PMIs for March

  • prior was 52.6 for both

0500GMT - Japan - March consumer confidence index

  • expected 43.4, prior 43.1

What we really need in Asia is something like the FOMC minutes to drive some movement .... so nice to see political gasbags taking a back seat for a change. I guess central bank speak is the closest we now get to fundamentals :-D

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