BOJ monetary policy, Blinken meets Marcos in Manila, GoTo earnings

Welcome to Your Week in Asia.

The Bank of Japan will discuss whether to end its negative interest rate policy at a meeting that starts Monday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will attend the Summit for Democracy in Seoul, before heading to Manila for a meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Companies including GoTo and Tencent will report earnings this week.

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MONDAY

Nvidia GTC

Nvidia is hosting its first in-person GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in five years, from Monday to Thursday. Company CEO Jensen Huang will kick off the event with a keynote speech in San Jose, California. Riding the wave of generative AI, the U.S. chipmaker has dominated the AI chip market since last year and is expected to announce new graphic processing units (GPUs) and other major AI developments at the highly-anticipated event.

South Korea hosts Summit for Democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be among the attendees at the Summit for Democracy taking place in Seoul from Monday to Wednesday.

The event features discussions among government officials and civil society representatives on this year's theme of "Democracy for Future Generations." The U.S.-led summit was first held in 2021 as a forum for democratic countries around the world to expand ties.

China data: industrial production, investment, real estate, retail

TUESDAY

BOJ monetary policy

The Bank of Japan wraps up a two-day meeting, where it could end the negative interest rate policy it adopted in early 2016. Negative rates were scrapped by central banks in places like the eurozone, Switzerland and Denmark in 2022, leaving Japan as the only nation