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:
- China Manufacturing PMI (April): 51.2 (expected 51.7)
- China Services PMI (April): 54.0 (prior was 55.1)
- Caixin manufacturing PMI for April: 50.3 (expected 51.3)
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