A light day for data and such from Asia today.
It's a holiday in New Zealand, markets closed.
Coming up:
2350GMT - Japan - September trade balance
Trade balance:
- expected is Y 366.1bn, prior was Y -19.2bn
Trade balance (adjusted):
- expected is Y 211.0bn, prior was Y 408.4bn
Exports y/y:
- expected is -10.8%, prior was -9.6%
Imports y/y:
- expected is -17.0%, prior was -17.2%
0030GMT - Japan - Manufacturing PMI (Nikkei), flash reading for October, prior 50.4
Neither of these from Japan are likely to immediately impact too much on yen, they rarely do.
0315GMT - Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldan is speaking. No, not in his sleep, he's at a conference in Honk Kong. It appears no media will be present, no text released ... so we may not hear anything (unless someone is live tweeting it - if you are, please let us know! And then, get a life :-D )
(And ps,, Minouche Shafik, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, is speaking later at the same conference - her speech will be published)
