Chinese markets are back today after last week's holiday.

Over the weekend the People's Bank of China set the Medium-term Lending Facility (MLF):

The PBOC is hamstrung in easing policy rates further by their fear of a run on the yuan. At the margin, the unchanged rate will be a negative input for the China and China-proxy trade (eg. AUD).

Economic calendar in Asia 19 February 2024 2

This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.

The times in the left-most column are GMT.

The numbers in the right-most column are the 'prior' (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.