China Leading Index On Tap For Tuesday

(RTTNews) - China will on Tuesday see January results for the leading and coincident indexes from the Conference Board, setting the pace for a modest day in Asia-Pacific economic activity. In December, the leading index was up 0.4 percent on month, while the coincident collected 0.7 percent.

Japan will provide January numbers for corporate service prices and February figures for small business confidence. Corporate service prices were up 1.3 percent on year in December, while the small business confidence index saw a score of 51.3 in January.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will announce its inflation expectation for the first quarter of 2014; the expectation for the previous three months was 2.34 percent.

Hong Kong will release January numbers for imports, exports and trade balance. In December, imports were worth 365.23 billion Hong Kong dollars and exports were at 310.88 billion Hong Kong dollars for a trade deficit of 54.35 billion Hong Kong dollars.