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Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Wheeler is appearing before a parliamentary committee, that's coming at 2200GMT

As a heads up, Wheeler speaks again tomorrow (Thursday NZ time at 9am ... its listed on the RBNZ website at 10am NZ time, but it'll be 9am.), The speech is titled 'Some thoughts on New Zealand's Economic Expansion.'

2230GMT - Australia - Construction PMI for November (Australian Industry Group Performance of Construction Index), prior 45.9

2350GMT - Japan - official Reserve Assets

0030GMT - Australia - Q3 GDP

  • expected -0.1% q/q, prior +0.5%
  • expected +2.2% y/y, prior +3.3%
  • I'll have more to come on another post for this

0130GMT - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Iwata speaks (at a meeting with business leaders in Nagasaki)

0500GMT - Japan - preliminary Leading and Coincident Indexes for October.

  • For the Leading Index (its December and we're getting a preliminary Leading Index for October? What's that all about?): expected 101.4, prior 100.3
  • Coincident (uh, ditto on the WTF?) : expected 114.1, prior 112.7
  • But its all, good ... Japanese data ... everyone will ignore it!