Fed member Kocherlakota is due to make the opening remarks at a public forum. Kocherlakota has recently swayed to the dovish side of the policy divide. We will be watching for any potential market-moving comments.
At 0001GMT we cross to the UK for the GfK Consumer Confidence survey results. GfK is a private research firm, the prior result for this survey was a reading of -28, with expectations this time at -27 to -28.
0030GMT sees Buliding Approvals out of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. These are MoM figures, the previous release was at +6.4% with expectations for this month’s figures at +1.0%.
Also out of Australia at 0030GMT is the less-closely watched Private Sector Credit data; previously coming in at +0.2%, market expectations are the same at +0.2%.
Taiwan release its preliminary GDP estimate at 0030GMT too (we are looking for a +1.5% reading).
At 0100 BoE director Salmon speaks in Osaka, and at 0130 were still in Japan for some income figures, then to Korea for retail sales (more on these coming up).
