Some data from Australia and that's about it. Japan and China remain on holidays today.

2300 GMT Australia Services PMI for April

  • The Australian Industry Group Performance of Services Index
  • prior 44.8

2300 GMT brings a second Australia Services PMI for April

From CBA / Markit

  • prior 50.5

Also, the Composite

  • prior 50.6

These are the 'final' readings, preliminaries are here:

Earlier in the week we got the manufacturing PMIs:

0130 GMT Australia, Building approvals for March

  • expected -12.0% m/m, prior +19.1%
  • expected -25.1%, prior -12.5%
  • I'll have more to come on this separately