Economic data from Asia today – sparse ahead of the US NFP

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In Asia today we’ve got:

• 2330GMT Australian Industry Group (AIG) performance of construction index (construction PMI). This is the final of the 3 AIG PMIs for August, prior was 44.1 and it is unlikely to have much impact on the AUD.

• From Japan at 2350GMT, Foreign Reserves assets for August, prior was $1254.0bn. Unlikely to have much (any) impact on USDJPY