A couple of highlights on the data agenda during Friday's trade in Asia today!

From the top ...

2100 GMT Federal Reserve's Neel Kashkari, President of the Minneapolis branch is speaking. Its a 'town hall' event, no speech text, Q&A with the audience.

2230 GMT New Zealand - BusinessNZ Manufacturing PMI for June

  • prior 50.2

0110 GMT Bank of Japan Japanese Government Bond purchase operation

  • 1-3, 3-5, 10-25, 25+ years remaining until maturity

Later from Japan, due at 0430 GMT is the final industrial production data for May

Due sometime today - the time is not announced in advance but circa 0300GMT is likely:

Trade balance for June from China

Yuan terms

  • China trade balance: expected CNY 278.5bn, prior was CNY279.12bn
  • Exports y/y: expected 6.9%, prior was 7.7%
  • Imports y/y: expected 3.7%, prior was -2.5%

USD terms

  • China trade balance: expected $45.00bn, prior was $41.66bn
  • Exports: expected -1.4%, prior 1.1%
  • Imports: expected -4.6%, prior was -8.5%

Also to come some time, maybe not today (could be any time up to and including the 15th), new loans, financing and money supply data for June:

  • New yuan loans, expected is 1700bn yuan, prior was 1180bn
  • Aggregate financing RMB, expected is 1900bn, prior was 1395.2bn
A couple ofhighlights on the data agenda during Friday's trade in Asia today!