Attention will turn again to Chinese stock markets. It's the final trading day of the week for China, markets are closed there on Thursday and Friday for WW2 commemoration.
Eco data in Asia today is a little sparse, but Australian Q2 GDP is a big one. I'll have more of the GDP preview coming up.
2350GMT - Japan - August Monetary base data, prior was +32.8%
0100GMT - New Zealand - ANZ Commodity Price Index for August, prior was -11.2%
0130GMT - Australia - Q2 GDP
Like I said, preview coming up ... in brief
- expected is +0.4% (and +2.2% y/y)
- prior was +0.9% (and +2.3% y/y)
- The headless chooks are running around screeching about the potential for a negative result. It's a non-trivial possibility, but a positive is the more likely.
0200GMT - Bonus ... we may get some headlines around this time head of the IMF Lagarde, who is in Indonesia.
