On the calendar today during Asia time:

2100 GMT - New Zealand - ANZ's Truckometer

Uses traffic volumes as a proxy for GDP growth

2330 GMT - Australia - Westpac's monthly consumer confidence (October)

The weekly sentiment indictor (ANZ's) has been soft, as has this

  • prior 97.9

2350 GMT - Japan - Core Machine Orders for August

  • expected +1.0% m/m, prior +8.0%
  • expected +0.7%, prior -7.5%

This is quite a volatile data point. Its used as an indicator to business capital expenditure to come about 6 to 9 months out.

0000 GMT - Head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Robert Kaplan speaks in moderated Q&A session at a Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Associates Meeting

There is no text, its both audience and media Q&A