We got the BOJ announcement yesterday, and the press conference from Governor Kuroda

Today we get the bank's Monthly Economic Report for September

  • This should contain some more detail on the cuts they made to their outlook yesterday.
  • The Report is out at 0500GMT, so its quite a ways off

Also from Japan today, and also much later:

0600GMT - Machine Tool orders for August. The final reading. We got the preliminary reading a week ago, and the guy who posted it was so appalled by the shockingly bad result that he lost all his hair! Srsly! Check it out

  • preliminary was -16.5% y/y
  • prior was +1.7%