The big event today is the speech from ECB President Draghi due at 0130GMT

I'm so excited I can hardly sleep (hey, it's the Asian timezone, that's what we do, K?)

0000GMT - New Zealand - ANZ Commodity Price Index for September, prior was -5.2%

0130GMT - Australia - Retail Sales for August

  • expected is +0.4%, prior was -0.1% (just on that 'prior' ... much weaker than expected for July but there is expected to be a bounce back this month. The danger is probably a miss on retail sales today which would be a negative for the AUD. On expectations, or a beat should give it a boost, but I don't expect the pop in the AUD would be to the same extent as a drop in the case of a miss)