Welcome to Tuesday forex - here is the data agenda in Asia
2100 GMT - New Zealand - Q1 consumer confidence from Westpac McDermott Miller
- Dropped in Q4 of 2017 on a little post-election change of government wobble to 107.4
- There is no expectations survey for this
2230 GMT - Australia - ANZ Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence index
- prior a drop to 116.0 with weakness across all sub measures
- later last week we got monthly consumer confidence (a different survey, from Westpac-Melbourne Institute, which showed a mall improvement +0.2% m/m)
- Not generally an FX market mover
2300 GMT - Japan - Reuters Tankan
0030 GMT - Australia - Q4 2017 house price index. A bit old hat given the monthly private industry measures and indications. Still ....
- expected flat q/q, prior -0.2%
- expected +3.9% y/y, prior 8.3%
0030 GMT - Reserve Bank of Australia - minutes of the March monetary policy board meeting
- While not much is expected of these they'll be watched for any discussion centring on economic growth forecasts, risks.
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Later in the day:
0415 GMT - Michele Bullock, Assistant Governor (Financial System) of the RBA speaks as part of a panel
0500 GMT - Japan - leading and coincident indexes for January, final
- Leading, preliminary was 104.8, expected 106.5, prior 107.4
- Coincident, preliminary was 114.0, expected 115.3, prior 120.2
0600 GMT - Japan - machine tool orders for February, final
- preliminary +39.5% y/y, prior +48.8%
NZD traders, stay tuned during London time for the dairy auction - I'll have more to come on this separately
