Welcome to July 5 - holiday over! (Actually, have as much July 4 holiday as you can, the markets'll be here waiting)
On the calendar today ...
2330GMT - Australia - Services PMI
- Australian Industry Group Performance of Services Index for June
- prior 51.5
Earlier this week we got the manufacturing PMI (and also a new set of PMIs from CBA/Markit):
- Australia - manufacturing PMI (June): 55.0 (May was 54.8)
- Two new Australian PMIs started today - from CBA / Markit: results, summary.
0030GMT - Japan - Services and Composite PMIs from Nikkei / Markit
- For June
- priors 53.0 and 53.4 respectively
0100GMT - New Zealand - ANZ Commodity Price Index for June
- prior +3.2% m/m and a whopping +26% y/y
0145GMT - China - Caixin / Markit Services and Composite PMIs
- June
- the priors were 52.8 and 51.5 respectively
These private survey PMIs complete the set for June, all have been on the up so far. Last week we got the official survey results:
- China manufacturing PMI for June: 51.7 (expected 51.0)
- China non-manufacturing PMI for June: 54.9 (prior 54.5)
And the Caixin manufacturing earlier this week:
