2130 GMT Reserve Bank of Australia's Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) is speaking, his topic is US Monetary Policy and Australian Financial Conditions.

  • Its a Bloomberg event.
  • Expect plenty from this!
  • The Australian dollar has opened for early trade just a touch lower than its late Friday

2145 GMT New Zealand Q3 manufacturing activity

2350 GMT Japan Q3 GDP, the final release , the preliminary data for this can be found here:

The very poor result was attributed to the multiple natural disasters in Japan in the period, with damage and a high death toll

Also from Japan at 2350 GMT, BoP current account for October

  • BoP Current Account Balance, expected ¥ 1262.7B, prior ¥ 1821.6B
  • BoP Current Account Adjusted: expected ¥ 1289.9B, prior ¥ 1334.0B
  • Trade Balance BoP Basis: expected ¥ -265.4B, prior ¥ 323.3B

and

  • Bank Lending excluding trusts for November, y/y: prior 2.2%
  • Bank Lending including trusts for November y/y: prior 2.2%

0030 GMT Australia housing finance data for October

  • Home loans m/m, expected is -0.4%, prior was -1.0%
  • Investment lending m/m, prior was -2.8%
  • Owner-occupied loan value m/m, prior was -4.2%

Declining house prices in Australia have taken the steam out of these indicators (and there is an element of vice versa in there also ;-) )

0100 GMT back to New Zealand for Treasury's Monthly Economic Indicators report, always a useful summary of where the NZ economy is at

0110 GMT Bank of Japan QQE, JGB buying operation in the 1-3, 3-5, and 5-10 years until expiry windows

Later from Japan, due at 0500GMT, the Economy Watchers Survey