A busy day coming up!
2230GMT Australia - Kick off with a speaker from the Reserve Bank of Australia, Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Economic) at the Bloomberg Breakfast Address, Sydney
2245GMT - New Zealand - Food Prices for August
2330GMT - Australia - Weekly consumer confidence, prior at 114.3, another leg down in the three week fall from a 33 month high
2350 - Japan - Business Sentiment Index for Q3
- 'Large all industry', prior -7.9
- 'Large Manufacturing', prior -11.1
0130GMT - NAB Business Confidence and Conditions for August
- priors 4 for Confidence and 8 for Conditions
0200GMT - China - August Industrial Production
- m/m expected 6.2%, prior 6.0%
- y/y expected 6.0% and prior 6.0%
0200GMT - China - Retail Sales and Fixed asset (excluding rural) investment for August
- Retail sales expected 10.2% y/y and 10.2% prior
- Fixed asset investment, expected 7.9% and prior 8.1%
Most focus will be on the Australian confidence and conditions data and the China data - I'll be back with more on both. The RBA speech is a wild card - the likelihood is it'll be nothing, but you never know.