The calendar has Bank of Japan Governor Ueda speaking at 0510 GMT, which is 0010 US Eastern time.
Ueda spoke earlier this week … nothing could stop him!
Bank of Japan Governor Ueda says economy recovering moderately, some weak signsUSD/JPY volatile on Bank of Japan Governor Ueda speechBank Japan Gov Ueda – Driver of Japan’s inflation shifting towards rise in domestic wages.BOJ governor Ueda says will not comment on short-term FX movesBOJ governor Ueda says no huge build up of yen carry positions compared to July
A little later Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Bullock is speaking at the Women in Payments Conference, Sydney
7pm local time, 0800 GMT and 0300 US Eastern time
We heard from Bullock a week ago, not dovish
RBA Bullock says rates are restrictive enough, staying there until confident on inflation
And the minutes from the November RBA meeting were published earlier this week. Not dovish either:
RBA minutes: Vigilant to upside inflation risks, policy must remain restrictiveThis 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/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.
This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.
