Its BOJ all the way in Tokyo today …

  • At 2350GMT we get the Minutes from the October 31 meeting. This is the meeting where we all got a shock when they eased further and then yen fell out of bed.
  • 0100GMT – Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda is speaking at a meeting with business leaders in Nagoya
  • 0400GMT – Kuroda BOJ deputy governor Nakaso and Christian Noyer, Governor of the Bank of France will be at the Paris EUROPLACE International Financial Forum in Tokyo
  • 0445GMT – Kuroda will give a press conference

In addition to all the talk from Kuroda there is one piece of economic data due from japan today, at 2350GMT we get the October PPI (services) data … which is unlikely to be a market mover … expected is +3.6% y/y, prior was +3.5%