Starts with Australia Monetary Policy meeting minutes
The markets are sleep walking through the NA holiday trading, so it is a time to look ahead to tomorrow.
The following major released and events are on the calendar:
- RBA Monetary Policy Meeting minutes. 7:30 PM ET/0030 GMT. The RBA kept rates unchanged. The statement and comments were at first thought to be less dovish and the AUDUSD rallied. The next day saw RBA's Lowe tilt the bias toward neutral and the price fell sharply
- Swiss Trade balance, 2 AM ET/0700 GMT. Est 2.24B
- UK Employment. 4:30 AM ET/0930 GMT. The Employmenct change 152K est. Weekly earnings 3.5%. Weekly earnings ex Bonus 3.4%. Unemployment rate 4.0%
- German ZEW economic sentiment, 5 AM ET/1000 GMT. -13.7 est vs -15.0 last month
- EU ZEW economic sentiment, 5 AM ET/1000 GMT, -18.2 est vs -20.9 last month
- EU construction output for Dec, 5 AM ET/1000 GMT, No est. Last -0.1% MoM and 0.9% YoY
- Fed's Mester speaks on Economic outlook and monetary policy
- US NAHB Housing market index for Feb. 10 AM ET/1500 GMT. 59 est vs 58 last month
