The big focus of the day is the Bank of Japan announcement, which is due at ... well, there is no scheduled time. The BOJ announcement comes when the BOJ is good and ready, thank-you very much.
- Ryan had an awesome preview of what to expect from the bank: Here's why the BOJ meeting doesn't matter
- While there is no schedule, we can usually expect the announcement sometime in the 0230 to 0330GMT time window.
- What is scheduled is the following press conference from Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda, that's at 0630GMT.
I'll have more on the BOJ and what to expect coming up.
What else do we get from the Asian timezone today?
2130GMT - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Williams will be speaking on his outlook for the US economy ... it's a prepared text, followed by an audience Q&A and then a media Q&A. The books have closed on him saying 'the NFP was just one number' and other related guff.
2230GMT - Australia - AiG Construction PMI for September, prior was 53.8
- We had manufacturing and services PMIs earlier
0500GMT - Japan leading and coincident indices for August (preliminary)
- expected are 103.4 and 112.3 respectively
- priors of 105.0 and 113.1, also respectively