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Get ready for an exciting week in the Asia Pacific region! Inflation figures from Singapore will kick off the economic calendar on Monday, followed by the Bank of Japan’s first policy meeting under new governor Kazuo Ueda.

But that’s not all – this week we’ll also be keeping an eye on Japanese retail sales, unemployment, and Tokyo consumer inflation reports, South Korean GDP, and Australian inflation. And as the month-end approaches, investors will be looking ahead to the U.S. central bank’s policy meeting.

While Fed officials are in a blackout period, we’ll be watching U.S. data, corporate earnings, signals from the banking sector, and the ebb and flow of debt ceiling concerns to gauge expectations for the decision. Plus, big tech earnings from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon are due, and we’ll be keeping an eye on Tesla shares after last week’s earnings miss.

As for the Bank of Japan, all eyes will be on Kazuo Ueda after a decade of uber-dove Haruhiko Kuroda. While it’s unlikely that Ueda will bin Kuroda’s super-loose yield curve control (YCC) policy so soon, some analysts believe he’ll steer the BOJ in a more hawkish direction sooner or later.

Consumer price inflation data on Friday showed that price growth in March held steady above the BOJ’s target, while a narrow measure of core prices rose at the fastest annual pace in four decades. Ueda has insisted that the current policy will remain in place for now, but the central bank’s revised inflation and growth forecasts might give a clue as to when it will tweak or abandon YCC.

On the data front Monday, we’ll be watching Singapore inflation, Hong Kong unemployment, and Taiwan industrial production and unemployment. Stay tuned for an exciting week ahead!

By Jamie McGeever; Editing by Diane Craft

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