Bernard Hickey details the key news in 90 seconds at 9 am in association with Bank of New Zealand, including news expected on Thursday to show New Zealand's Gross Domestic Product rose around 0.2% in the March quarter after a 0.2% rise in the December quarter.
In Australia the Reserve Bank of Australia is widely expected to hold its official cash rate at 4.75% on Tuesday, but may indicate an increase next month as it battles to control inflation from its biggest mining boom in more than a century.
See more here at The Australian.
Elsewhere the European Central Bank is expected to hike its official rate from 1.25% as inflation continues to rise above its target zone. Also, as expected, European officials approved the payment of 12 billion euros to Greece and indicated it would approve a new bailout package. See more here at BBC.
Meanwhile, the Bank of Moscow had to be bailed out over the weekend with a US$14 billion rescue.
The biggest bank rescue in Russian rescue followed the discovery that a third of its loans were bad. See more here at BBC.
In America legislators have chosen to work through the July 4 Independence Day holiday to try to solve the debt ceiling impasse that threatens to cause America to default on its government debt from August 2.
See more here at The Guardian.
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