Calendar for today in Asia

2200GMT - New Zealand - ANZ's job ads for April

  • prior +1.6%
  • Yesterday we got Q1 employment data from NZ (in a nutshell huge beats on employment growth and unemployment, huge miss on wage growth)

0100GMT - New Zealand - ANZ's commodity price indicator for April ( prices received for New Zealand's main export categories)

  • prior +0.4%

0100GMT - Australia - New home sales data for March

  • from the Housing Industry Association (HIA)
  • prior +0.2%

0130GMT - Australia - trade balance for March

  • expected surplus of AUD3250mln
  • prior AUD 3574mln (Higher commodity prices supporting the Australian terms of trade a big positive for this data point)

0145GMT - private survey PMI data from China

  • Caixin Services and Composite PMIs for April
  • prior 52.2 and 52.1 respectively

Here are the PMIs for China so far for April, all a wee bit softer from March:

0310GMT - Australia - Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Lowe speaks

  • At the Economic Society (Queensland) Business Lunch
  • Topic is Household Debt, Housing Prices and Resilience
  • I'll get a preview of this posted soon ... given the title it'll be significant