A light calendar today, but some notable data from japan

2245GMT - New Zealand - Card spending for August

  • Retail expected +0.5% m/m, prior -0.5%
  • Total, prior -0.7%

2350GMT - Japan

July Machinery Orders m/m,

  • expected is 4.1%, prior -1.9%

Machinery Orders y/y,

  • expected -7.8%, prior -5.2%

This is data for Core Machinery orders from Japan's Cabinet Office, its private sector machinery orders excluding ship and power equipment and is a guide to capex to come in around 6-9 months,. It's a volatile data set.

Later, due at 0430GMT - July Tertiary Industry index, an indicator for the change in the total value of services purchased by businesses.

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Due from

From China some time this week (there is no form date nor time scheduled, sometime from today through to Friday, inclusive ... usually later in the expected window):

August...

New yuan loans

Aggregate financing

Money supply M0, M1 and M2

New yuan loans & Aggregate financing (AKA Total Social Financing - it's a broad measure or new credit in the economy) the focus