Welcome to Friday and a sparse economic calendar in Asia today

2350GMT - Japan - the international securities flows data for the week (ended July 14). This is usually a Thursday data release but Japan was on a public holiday on Monday so it's a day later this week.

0240GMT - Reserve Bank of Australia Deputy Governor Guy Debelle, speech - Global Influences on Domestic Monetary Policy. There should be a few headlines from this - AUD traders take note.

0300GMT - New Zealand - Credit Card Spending for June

  • prior was +0.9% m/m & +7.6% y/y

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Later in the day, due at 0415GMT - Reserve Bank of Australia's Michele Bullock, Assistant Governor (Financial System) speakis at the Melbourne Institute/The Australian Economic & Social Policy Conference