There is not too much on the calendar to move the forex markets in Asia this Monday

Here is what is coming up:

2330GMT - Australia - 'Construction' sector PMI for July

  • Australian Industry Group Performance of Construction Index, the third and final PMI from AiG for the month
  • June was 56.0

Earlier in the month we got the manufacturing and services PMIs from the group:

2350GMT - Japan reserves assets for July

0130GMT - Australia - ANZ job advertisements for July

  • For June, +2.7% m/m and +10.5% y/y
  • 0200GMT - New Zealand - Treasury's Monthly Economic Indicators
  • from the Forecasting and Monitoring team in the New Zealand Treasury
  • This is a useful overview of NZ's economy

0300GMT - New Zealand again - Inflation Expectations data from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand out 1 year and 2 years

  • RBNZ's 'Survey of expectations' for Q3
  • This can be a market mover if expectations (particularly the 2 year) are far from the target range or far from previous readings; central banks want to keep inflation expectations 'anchored'

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And, as a ps. - it's a bank holiday in Australia's major FX centre (Sydney) today, liquidity will thus be thinner than usual, at least until Tokyo Singapore and Hong Kong get active in coming hours.