Economic calendar Asia Tuesday, August 20 – People’s Bank China & Reserve Bank Australia

I posted on the PBoC and RBA yesterday.

ICYMI …

Its rate-setting day from the People’s Bank of China and we will also get the minutes from the most recent Reserve Bank of Australia meeting.

The PBoC cut rates in July, surprising some in the market. People’s Bank of China cut repo rates on July 22:

• PBoC announces cut to 7-day reverse repo rate to 1.70% from 1.80%
• at the same time the Bank lowered collateral requirements for medium term lending facility loans

On the same day they cut LPRs:

• China cuts 1 and 5 year loan prime rates by 10 basis points each

Then they followed up three days later with a surprise, shock, cut to their Medium-term Lending Facility (MLF) rate:

• People’s Bank of China reduces 1 year Medium-term Lending Facility (MLF) rate to 2.3%

Today its Loan Prime Rate (LPR) setting day again. No cut is expected, but nothing is off the table.

A few minutes after the PBoc brings Reserve Bank of Australia August meeting minutes. From the day:

• RBA leaves cash rate unchanged at 4.35%, as expected
• RBA governor Bullock: Inflation progress has been slow for a year now
• RBA governor Bullock: A rate cut is not on the agenda in the near-term

On Friday Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Bullock took the hawkish tack:

• RBA Governor Bullock’s comment that its ‘premature’ to think about rate cuts helping AUD

(ps.

I don’t believe her: AUD traders, here’s what’s really happening with the Reserve Bank Australia. Nov meet live

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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/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.