Yep, plenty of opportunity for the central bankers to make their voices heard in Asia today
From the top, here is whats coming up:
2350GMT - Bank of Japan April 30 meeting Minutes. I don't expect much to move the market from this ... it was pretty much a nothing meeting.
0010GMT - Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is speaking at the Louisiana State University Graduate School of Banking
- Speech is on financial stability, titled "From Country Banks to SIFIs: The 100-year Quest for Financial Stability". Sounds riveting.
- He will speak with media following
- And also an audience Q&A. We may well get pertinent comments on the economy and policy in his comments to reporters and in the Q&A
0045GMT - Reserve Bank of Australia Deputy Governor Philip Lowe speaks at the Thomson Reuters' 3rd Australian Regulatory Summit in Sydney. Topic is "The Transformation in Maturity Transformation". That's what the RBA say the topic is anyway
0130GMT ... back to Japan for BOJ Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Kikuo Iwata, speaking at a meeting with business leaders in Sapporo. A press conference follows at 0600GMT.