The local corporate earnings season officially starts today, with GUD and Oil Search kicking off the ASX200 companies. This will turn into an avalanche of reports as February rolls on.
A reminder to foreign MacroBusiness readers that Australia Day will be celebrated on Thursday locally as a public holiday.
The focus on local data will be the release of quarterly CPI figures on Wednesday, whilst in the rest of Asia, the Chinese New Year is closing markets and releases, although New Zealand’s central bank is likely to cut rates on Thursday.
Further afield, the US corporate earnings season accelerates, the Fed meets on Thursday (expect no change) with durable orders data released on Friday, whilst in Europe, manufacturing/service PMI’s will be the focus, alongside the ongoing talk fest at Davos.
From the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS):
Wednesday: CPI (quarterly)From the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA):
nilOther Local and New Zealand data
Tuesday: CB Leading Index
Wednesday: MI Leading Index
Thursday: RBNZ Official Cash Rate, Australia Day holidayInternational:
Tuesday: Bank of Japan OCR, French/German/EU Flash manufacturing/services PMI
Wednesday: World Economic Forum in Davos starts, UK prelim quarterly GDP
Thursday: US pending home sales, crude oil inventories, Fed Fund rate
Friday: US Core durable goods, unemployment claims weekly, new home sales; EU M3 money supply yoy