2330 GMT Australia weekly consumer confidence

  • ANZ/Roy Morgan survey

  • prior 114.1

0130GMT brings the RBA and the PBOC (repeating the below from yesterday's heads up)

Reserve Bank of Australia Minutes of the April 2021 Monetary Policy Meeting

  • RBA policy is very much on hold for now, there will be no indication in the minutes of any change on the near term horizon.

At the same time as the RBA minutes we get the People's Bank of China 1 and 5 year loan prime rate (LPR) setting

  • 1 year expected 3.85%, prior 3.85%
  • 5 year expected 4.65%, prior 4.65%

Expectations are the one-year LPR will be left unchanged for the rest of 2021. Its been unchanged since May 2020.