Economic calendar in Asia Thursday, November 21, 2024 – Bank of Japan Governor Ueda speech

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 signs
• USD/JPY volatile on Bank of Japan Governor Ueda speech
• Bank 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 moves
• BOJ 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 restrictive

• 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.