Asia will be keen on the NFP from the US on Friday, ahead of that though, its Bank of Japan day ...
There is no scheduled time for the BOJ announcement and statement, past experience suggests that 0230 - 0330 GMT is likely, the later it happens the more likely there has been some change to policy. No change is expected today, and I'll be back with more on this separately.
2145 GMT - Card spending for February
- Retail card spending expected +0.1% m/m, prior +1.4%
- Total, prior +0.6% m/m
2330 GMT - Japan - Overall Household Spending for January
- expected -1.0%, prior -0.1%
2350 GMT - Japan - Money stock M2 and M3 for February
0000 GMT - Japan - Wages data for January
- Labor Cash Earnings expected +0.7%, prior +0.7%
- Real Cash earnings expected -0.7%, prior -0.5%
0130 GMT - China - inflation data for February
- CPI February expected 2.5%, prior 1.5%
- PPI expected 3.8%, prior 4.3%
0200 GMT - People's Bank of China Governor Zhou news conference. This is part of the NPC, he is likely to run over targets, policies for the coming year, much of which is known already.
