Schedule for today, Tuesday, Oct 1’2013:

00:00 China Bank holiday

01:00 China Manufacturing PMI September 51.0 51.6 51.1

01:30 Australia Retail sales (MoM) August +0.1% +0.3% +0.4%

01:30 Australia Retail Sales Y/Y August +2.0% Revised From +1.9% +2.3%

01:30 Japan Labor Cash Earnings, YoY August +0.1% Revised From +0.4% -0.2% -0.6%

04:30 Australia Announcement of the RBA decision on the discount rate 2.50% 2.50%

04:30 Australia RBA Rate Statement

06:30 Australia RBA Commodity prices, y/y September -7.3%

07:30 Switzerland Manufacturing PMI September 54.6 54.9

07:48 France Manufacturing PMI (Finally) September 49.5 49.5

07:53 Germany Manufacturing PMI (Finally) September 51.3 51.3

07:55 Germany Unemployment Change September 7 -5

07:55 Germany Unemployment Rate s.a. September 6.8% 6.8%

07:58 Eurozone Manufacturing PMI (Finally) September 51.1 51.1

08:10 United Kingdom MPC Member Tucker Speaks

08:30 United Kingdom Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing September 57.2 57.5

09:00 Eurozone Unemployment Rate August 12.1% 12.1%

09:00 Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Speaks

13:00 U.S. Manufacturing PMI (Finally) September 52.8 52.8

14:00 U.S. Construction Spending, m/m August +0.6% +0.5%

14:00 U.S. ISM Manufacturing September 55.7 55.3

15:55 Canada Gov Council Member Macklem Speaks

20:30 U.S. API Crude Oil Inventories September -0.1

20:50 Japan Monetary Base, y/y September 42.0% 45.3%