Ahead of the planned IPO, Saudi Aramco is in the market for raising $10 billion in its first bond sale.
The RBA left policy rates unchanged but said that inflation will pick up during this year.
Analysts now predict a rate hike in 2018 though the central bank had forecast to keep rates until end of 2019.
If traders prefer to bet more on the loonie downside, USD/CAD can soon rise to levels above 1.3500 from the current 1.30 region.
Silver and platinum too are trading near multi-month highs.
Technically, the euro is more poised to the downside rather than the upside despite a slight uptrend in place since January.
Ezra Holding shares dropped to 3.2 Singapore cents even as 190 million shares were traded on the SGX.
Retail sales in Australia unexpectedly fell 0.1% month-on-month in December when analysts had been expecting a 0.3% gain.
USD/IDR slipped to 13,335 on Friday from the previous close of 13,398, and the gain in the rupiah was well within the 13,200-13,450 per dollar range, in place since January.
The US Treasury Department said it has enacted new sanctions on 25 firms or individuals connected to Iran's ballistic missile program.
The CBR said Russia will near its 4% inflation target and the annual GDP rate will get back to the positive zone this year itself.
The PBOC raised the 7-day, 14-day and 28-day reverse repurchase agreements by 10 basis points each to 2.35%, 2.5% and 2.65% respectively.
The Singapore PMI dropped to a three-month low of 51.6 in January and Hong Kong's fell to 49.9 from 50.3.
Mexico manufactured 3.5 million light vehicles in 2016, a 67 percent rise from 2008.
The Manufacturing PMI increased to 51 in January of 2017 from 50.6 in the previous month.