Here is what’s on the economic calendar in Asia today - RBA day

Reserve Bank of Australia October monetary policy meeting today.

2100 GMT New Zealand Q3 Survey of Business Opinion

• New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion (QSBO)

2230 GMT Australia weekly consumer confidence

• ANZ/Roy Morgan survey

• prior 95.0

0030 GMT Australia ANZ job advertisements survey for September

• prior 1.6% m/m

0130 GMT Australia trade balance for August

• exports m/m expected -2%, prior -4%

• import m/m expected -5%, prior -7%

0330 GMT Reserve Bank of Australia announcement and accompanying statement from Governor Lowe

• I'll have more to come on this separately
• Earlier: RBA monetary policy meeting Tuesday 6 October 2020 - preview
• WPAC see a cut in November
  • to cut the overnight cash rate to 0.1%; the three year target bond rate to 0.1%; the rate on the Term Funding Facility to 0.1%; and the rate the RBA pays on Exchange Settlement balances to 0.01%.
  • NAB expects further RBA easing
  • CBA is forecasting the RBA on hold at the next meeting
  • ANZ do not expect the RBA to cut in October
  • Update to predictions for what the RBA will do at its October policy meeting
  • Citi sees the RBA in wait and see mode - and notes fat tail risks for AUD