Reserve Bank of Australia meeting announcement and accompanying Statement from Governor Lowe, due at 0330GMT
2130 GMT Australia services PMI
- AiG Performance of Services Index for February, prior 44.3
- Last week we got an improved AiG manufacturing PMI: Australian Industry Group Performance of Manufacturing Index for February
2200 GMT Australia services PMI (another one) … CBA / Markit services PMI for February final
- The 'flash' readings are here: Australian preliminary February PMIs: Manufacturing 53.1 (prior 53.9) Services 49.3 (51.0)
- Last week we got: Australia manufacturing PMI (CBA /Markit, February final): 52.9 (prelim was 53.1)
2230 GMT Australia, weekly consumer sentiment from the ANZ / Roy Morgan survey
- prior 114.1
0000 GMT New Zealand ANZ index of commodity prices for February
- prior +2.1% m/m
0001 GMT UK BRC like-for-like retail sales indicator
- expected +0.1% y/y, prior +1.8%
0030 GMT Australia BoP current account for Q4 2018
- expected AUD -9.2bn, prior AUD -10.7bn
- As part of this release is the much-watched ('cause its an input to the GDP figure due March 6)
Net Exports as a % of GDP figure, expected -0.1%, prior 0.4%
0030 GMT Japan Nikkei / Markit Services and Composite PMIs for February
- priors 51.6 and 50.9 respectively
0145 GMT China Caixin / Markit Services and Composite PMIs for February
- services expected 53.5
- priors 53.6 and 50.9 respectively
0330 GMT RBA monetary policy meeting announcement
- I'll have more to come on this separately
- preview already here: Big two days coming up from the RBA - meeting then Gov Lowe speech - preview
