Early indications for Japanese inflation for May will come from the Tokyo area inflation data. The 'ex food and energy' reading is the closest to US core inflation. Its recently turned positive in Japan and is still well below the BOJ 2% target.
Also up today,
- New Zealand consumer confidence for May
- Australian retail sales data and industrial profits from China, both for April.
This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
- The times in the left-most column are GMT.
- The numbers in the right-most column are the 'prior' (previous month) result.
- The number in the column next to that, where is a number, is the consensus median expected.
0130 GMT China Industrial Profits for April
prior +12.20% y/y
and for the YTD, prior +8.5%
