Not a lot on the economic data agenda today from Ais, here's what's coming:

Australia,

2230GMT - Australia - AIG Performance of Manufacturing index for December,

  • prior was 52.5 (the 5th consecutive expansion and longest since 2010)

Also at 2230GMT - Loretta Mester, president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank speaks as part of a panel discussion on the US and global economic outlook at the American Economic Association meeting in San Francisco (the same venue as Fischer spoke at earlier today)

2300GMT - Australia - CoreLogic house prices for December, prior was -1.5%

0135GMT - Japan - Nikkei / Markit Manufacturing PMI for December (final)

  • Prior (November) was 52.6)
  • flash was 52.5

0145GMT - China - Caixin / Markit Manufacturing PMI for December,

  • expected is 48.9, prior was 48.6

On Friday (Jan 1) we got the official Manufacturing PMI from China