Australia inflation data is a little more frequent than Santa, but not much. The official data hits once a quarter, and today's the day for Q1 2017 CPI.
But, from the top...
2330GMT - Australia - ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence index
- prior 112.6
- This indicator appears to be in a downtrend
0100GMT- Australia - Skilled job vacancies for March, prior 0.1%
0130GMT - Australian inflation data for the March quarter 2017
The 'headline' result is the q/q CPI for Q1:
- expected +0.6%
- prior was +0.5%
For the y/y, expected is 2.2%, prior 1.5%
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For the 'trimmed mean' (which is the measure the RBA pays most heed to, it is the 'core' inflation figure where the RBA target band is 2 - 3%)
For the q/q:
- expected 0.5%
- prior 0.4%
For the y/y, expected is 1.8%, prior 1.6%
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Finally, there is the 'weighted median' CPI:
- For q/q: expected 0.5%, prior was 0.4%
- For y/y: expected 1.8%, prior was 1.5%
I'll have more to come on the inflation data.
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0300GMT - New Zealand - Credit Card Spending for March
- prior -1.4% m/m & +5.3% y/y
0430GMT - Japan - All industry Activity index for February
- expected +0.6%, prior +0.1%
- measures the monthly change in overall production by all sectors of the Japanese economy - it used as a proxy for GDP
