What a day .... yikes

Very slow so far as Asia cranks up

AUD/USD is up 10 points or so in the past hour. obviously more buyers than sellers!

Updates:

And ... news flow so far:

  • Japan - Retail sales for May -1.6% m/m (expected -1%)

Still to come:

0100GMT - New Zealand - ANZ Business confidence and Activity outlook for June

  • priors for both in May were higher than April at 14.9 and 38.3 respectively
  • As part of this release is 'inflation expectations' too

0100GMT - Australia - HIA new home sales for May

  • prior +0.8% m/m

0130GMT - Australia - job vacancies for May, prior +1.8%

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Oh, and if you've read down this far .... I've got a big post coming up at 0230GMT ... stay tuned (or come back then!)