Coming up from Asia today, a special treat with Federal Reserve and Reserve Bank of Australia speakers
2130 GMT - Australia - construction sector PMI
- Australian Industry Group Performance of Construction Index for February
- prior 54.3
2135 GMT - Speech by Philip Lowe, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor
- Topic is "The Changing Nature of Investment"
- Venue is the Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney
Stay tuned for any comments on the economy or policy, perhaps in the Q&A
2145 GMT - New Zealand building (construction) work data for Q4
0000 GMT - Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lael Brainard speaks
- Speaking to the Money Marketeers in New York
- Q&A to follow
0030 GMT - Australia GDP for the October to December quarter of 2017
- expected 0.5% q/q (I'm gonna be back with more on this - later respondents to the survey, following the 'partials released over the past two days are generally lower than those who responded prior to these)
- prior 0.6% q/q
- expected 2.5% y/y (ditto), prior 2.8%
I'll have more to come on this separately
0110 GMT Bank of Japan Japanese Government Bond purchasing operation
1-3, 3-5, 10-25 and 25+ years
0130 GMT - Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan speaking at an energy conference in Houston. Q&A to follow? ... I'm not sure so stay tuned I guess
