We've been waiting all week for some data from China

I did a heads up earlier in the week: China data ... more to come this week

So save you a click:

December new yuan loans

  • expected is 700.0bn, prior was 708.9bn (CNY amounts)

Aggregate financing, 1020.0bn.

  • expected is 1150bn, prior was 1020.0bn (CNY)

These two (New Yuan Loans and Aggregate, or Social Financing) give a guide to credit availability in China ('Aggregate financing' is the broader of the two)

And ....

Money supply M0 y/y

  • expected is 3.5%, prior was 3.2%

Money supply M1 y/y

  • expected is 15.5%, prior was 15.7%

Money supply M2 y/y

  • expected is 13.6%, prior was 13.7%

There isn't a scheduled time for this, and it may well come out during the European time zone (it did last month), but we've waited all week a few more hours won't hurt!

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Also today:

NZ data at 2145GMT - Food price Index for December, not likely to be a market mover. Prior was -0.2%

Japan data due at 2350GMT - International Transactions in Securities data from Japan's Ministry of Finance

  • Japan Buying Foreign Bonds
  • Japan Buying Foreign Stocks
  • Foreign Buying Japan Bonds
  • Foreign Buying Japan Stocks

0030GMT - Australian data, and the major economic focus for the session - housing finance for November.

Home loans m/m,

  • expected is -0.5%, prior was -0.5%

Investment lending m/m,

  • prior was -6.1% (this has been droopping away, in line with RBA efforts (new regulations) to cool this sector, but there is some crafty switching of loan classifications going on in Aussie lenders, so the declines here are not all they seem. Still, investor lending has slowed somewhat. This has been accompanied by a slight cool off in the pace of price growth)

Owner-occupied loan value m/m,

  • prior was +0.4%