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

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.