China trade data the focus
2145 GMT New Zealand Q4 2018 Manufacturing Activity and also Building data
2330 GMT Japan January household spending
- expected -0.5% y/y, prior 0.1%
2350 GMT Japan, final Q4 GDP )expected to be revised higher just a touch from the preliminary release)
- GDP (seasonally adjusted), final, q/q
- GDP Annualized (seasonally adjusted), final y/y
- GDP Nominal (seasonally adjusted), final q/q
- GDP Deflator y/y, final
- GDP Consumer Spending (aka private Consumption) y/y
- GDP Business Spending y/y
The preliminaries and priors for these can be found here: Japan Q4 GDP (prelim): 0.3% q/q (expected 0.4%)
- and commentaries are linked from here: Japan Q4 GDP bounce back - recap
Also at 2350 GMT from Japan
- BoP Current Account Balance for January , expected ¥ 161.0B, prior ¥ 452.8B
- BoP Current Account Adjusted: expected ¥ 1385.3B, prior ¥ 1562.3B
- Trade Balance BoP Basis: expected ¥ -1133.1B, prior ¥ 216.2B
- Bank Lending excluding trusts February, y/y: prior 2.4%
- Bank Lending including trusts y/y: prior 2.4%
0110 GMT Bank of Japan Japanese Government Bond purchasing operation scheduled in the 1-3 and 3-5 years remaining until maturity windows
0300 GMT (approximately, not a firmly scheduled time) from China, trade balance for February.
- The priors and expected are here: Data coming up from China Friday, along with the January/Feb distortion warning!
