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