Economic calendar in Asia, Tuesday 1 August 2023 – Reserve Bank of Australia day!

<p>The Reserve Bank of Australia policy statement is due at 2.30pm Sydney time, which is 0430 GMT at 12.30am US Eastern time. Marekt pricing is showing an on-hold decision while analysts are split between on-hold and a +25bp hike. I'll have more to come on this separately.</p><p>I didn't note in the screenshot that the data at 2245 is from New Zealand, while all other data with similar flags (its difficult sometimes to tell the flags apart) is from Australia. </p><p>The data focus is on the Chinese Caixin Manufacturing PMI. Yesterday we had official Chinese PMIs:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/news/forexlive-asia-pacific-fx-news-wrap-boj-unscheduled-bond-buying-boosts-yen-crosses-20230731/" target="_blank" rel="follow" data-article-link="true">ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: BOJ unscheduled bond buying boosts yen crosses</a></li><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/china-official-july-manufacturing-pmi-493-vs-expected-492-services-515-20230731/" target="_blank" rel="follow" data-article-link="true">China official July Manufacturing PMI 49.3 (vs. expected 49.2) &amp; Services 51.5</a></li></ul><p align="left">
This
snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, <a href="https://www.forexlive.com/EconomicCalendar">access
it here</a>.</p><p align="left">
The
times in the left-most column are GMT. </p><p align="left">
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.</p>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.