Good morning, afternoon or evening ladies and gentlemen, here is what's coming up on the data and event calendar for today.

2345GMT - New Zealand - Finance Minister Bill English is speaking

2350GMT - Japan - International securities transactions for the week (ended February 19)

0000GMT - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard speaks in NY. I haven't a topic.

0030GMT - Australia - Private Capital Expenditure for Q4. I'll be back with more on this.

0130GMT - Japan - BOJ's Kiuchi speaks. Kiuchi is a serial dissenter at BOJ mon pol board meetings, so we won't be hearing the Kuroda mantra from him.