It is not a packed economic calendar today. Apart from an Reserve Bank of Australia speaker its blank!
We will be getting a bit more detail from the Bank of Japan after their announcement yesterday, but nothing likely to be market moving.
The focus is from 0000GMT, when new Governor Philip Lowe appears before parliament (the House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Economics). This will be Lowe's first public utterances since taking the new job. Central bank watchers will be alert for any changes in tone on policy. these will be minimal (if there are any at all), but given the scrutiny the appearance will attract there no doubt be something to go on, even if its just the result of fevered imaginations. LOL.
AUD has been well bid over the past 24 hours central bank fest, I'll highlight any remarks from Lowe that may impact upon it:
