breaking news Heads up Monday Asia trade, 3 central banks: Bank of Japan, People’s Bank of China, RBA

This is an active central bank calendar coming Monday, March 20, 2023 during the Asia session.

At 6:10 p.m. EST, the Reserve Bank of Australia:

• Christopher Kent, Deputy Governor (Capital Markets)
• taking the floor:Long and variable monetary policy lags“

Expectations are rising for a break from the RBA at their next meeting on April 4:

But it is not unanimous:

At 5:50 p.m. EST, we receive the “summary” of the BOJ’s March meeting. This was the last meeting of Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda. The policy remained unchanged at this meeting:

At 2115, we get the monthly setting of the People’s Bank of China’s Lending Prime Rate (LPR). I posted a preview here:

On Friday, the Bank filed this in: