People’s Bank of China open market operations are one tool used to manage liquidity
- rates may be cut this month reports the CSJ
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China Securities Journal is a national securities newspaper – part of official Xinhua News Agency.
2330 GMT Tokyo inflation data for December – Tokyo area CPI (national level CPI for the month follows in three weeks). The y/y rate has received a wee boost from the October 1 sales tax hike. But not much.
Also at 2330 GMT Japan Jobless (Unemployment) rate for November
and Job to applicant ratio for November
2350 GMT Bank of Japan monetary policy meeting ‘Summary of Opinions’ of the December meeting
2350 GMT Japan Retail sales for November
expected 5.0% m/m, prior -14.2% (the huge drop was helped along by that sales tax hike I mentioned above)
2350 GMT Japan Industrial Production for November (preliminary)
0130 GMT China Industrial Profits for November % y/y