Asia Market Movers | Japan retail sales surge 5.3% in May on wages and subsidies, smashing forecasts

Monday, 29 Jun, 2026 News Japan retail sales surge 5.3% in May on wages and subsidies, smashing forecasts The print lands as a material upside surprise at a moment when BOJ rate path expectations are acutely sensitive to evidence of sustained domestic demand. A 5.3% year-on-year gain against a 3.2% consen Stock market update AI buildout echoes dot-com and railway manias, BIS warns on bust risk and recession threat The BIS framing puts a systemic lens on what markets have been treating as a sector-specific valuation debate. The warning that household equity exposure has risen materially relative to both wealth a Learn more Central Banks PBOC is expected to set the USD/CNY reference rate at 6.8041 – Reuters estimate The People’s Bank of China is due to set the daily USD/CNY reference rate at around 0115 GMT (2115 US Eastern time), a fixing that remains one of the most closely watched signals in Asian foreign exch Central Banks RBA's Kent says monetary policy board may have less tolerance for inflation ('but' ...) RBA Kent speech: Additional Monetary Policy Tools: Reflections and a New Framework In brief on Kent's speech, its not really addressing current high inflation. While Kent did say the board would be le Commodities Gold demand set to climb as $29 trillion in sovereign capital rethinks dollar reliance The one-third of surveyed institutions planning to add gold represents a demand signal with genuine price implications: central banks and sovereign wealth funds operate at a scale where even increment News China industrial profits rise 21% in May but growth slows as domestic demand lags The sectoral split in China's profit data has direct commodity read-throughs: upstream outperformance in non-ferrous metals and electronics materials reflects sustained input cost pressure that has ye Forex Bolivia abandons 15-year dollar peg. Boliviano set for 30% free float plunge. The immediate read-through for emerging market FX is a reminder that managed pegs under reserve stress are a slow-motion event until they are not. Bolivia's parallel market had already been pricing th Commodities Futures trade has begun for the new week, oil up $1 Oil has jumped a little on the weekend news: Iran, US trade strikes. Gulf ceasefire unravels over weekend. Will probably ravel soon. The escalation has since unwound somewhat: US and Iran halt strikes Learn more News Economic and event calendar in Asia 29 June 2026 - data due from Japan Data due from Japan today. Not likely to move the yen too much, it remains weak. Earlier: Weekend - Hawkish ECB board member calls for further rate hikes despite Hormuz relief (re Schnabel) Reserve Ba

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