Yeah, it could be a busy one the calendar. Maybe not quite that much...

2200GMT - New Zealand - ANZ's Truckometer July (measures traffic flows in New Zealand as a proxy for GDP)

  • prior was unchanged on the month at 0.0%

2200GMT - Australia - A speech by Christopher Kent, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets) of the Reserve Bank of Australia (at the Bloomberg Address, Sydney)

2350GMT - Japan - money stock for July

0030GMT - Australia - Westpac's monthly consumer confidence index, August

  • prior +0.4% to a still pessimistic 96.6 (above 100 is an optimistic read)

0130GMT- China - inflation data for July

  • CPI expected 1.5%, prior 1.5%
  • PPI expected 5.6%, prior 5.5%

I'll be back on a separate post with a preview for the Chinese inflation data

0130GMT - Australia - Housing finance data for July

  • Home loans m/m, expected is 1.5%, prior was 1.0%
  • Investment lending m/m, prior was -1.4%
  • Owner-occupied loan value m/m, prior was 2.9%
  • I'll be back on a separate post with a preview for this