After a US holiday Monday Tuesdays in Asia are often like a rerun of Monday
Here is what's coming up on the economic calendar:
2230GMT - Australia - weekly consumer sentiment
- ANZ / Roy Morgan Weekly Consumer Confidence, prior 116.4
2300GMT -New Zealand - Speech from Fin Min Joyce
0030GMT - Japan - Nikkei manufacturing PMI for February, flash
- prior 52.7
0030GMT - Reserve Bank of Australia - Minutes from the February Monetary Policy Meeting
- The Statement accompanying the February decision was a little on the upbeat side.
A few days after the meeting we got the quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy (SoMP), so I'm not expecting anything to surprise too much from the minutes today.
0430GMT - Japan - All Industry Activity Index for December
- expected -0.2% m/m, prior +0.3%
- This index measures the monthly change in overall production by all sectors of the Japanese economy, it serves as a proxy for GDP.