A whole bunch of lower-tier info from the economic calendar today

2100 GMT - New Zealand - Job ads (ANZ data) for September, prior +1.0% m/m

2200 GMT - Australia - September CBA / Markit Services and Composite PMIs

  • prior 54.2 & 54.1 respectively
  • The manufacturing PMI from this group was out on Monday: 53.8 (prior 53.5)

2230 GMT - Australia - Australian Industry Group Services PMI (September)

  • AiG Performance of Services index, prior 53.0
  • The manufacturing PMI from AiG was out on Monday: 54.2 (prior 59.8)

2301 GMT - UK - BRC Shop Price Index (September)

  • prior -0.3% y/y
  • This indicator has been showing persistent shop price deflation

0000 GMT - New Zealand - ANZ Commodity Prices for September

  • prior -0.8% m/m and +16.3% y/y
  • and in NZD terms, prior +0.2% m/m) & +16% y/y

0030 GMT - Japan - September Nikkei / Markit Services and Composite PMIs

  • priors 51.6 and 51.9 respectively

0110 GMT - Bank of Japan JGB purchases scheduled: 1 - 3 years, 3 - 5 years and 5 -10 years

And, reminder ... China is closed today, and all week - so there are no PBOC yuan reference rates all week!