Japan Industrial Production On Tap For Friday

(RTTNews) - Japan will on Friday see final March numbers for industrial production, highlighting a modest day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.

Little change is expected from the preliminary reading that suggested a decline of 2.3 percent on month and an increase of 7.0 percent on year. Capacity utilization was called lower by 2.6 percent.

Hong Kong will see Q1 numbers for gross domestic product; in the previous three months, GDP was up 1.1 percent on quarter and 3.0 percent on year.

Malaysia will release Q1 numbers for GDP and current account. GDP is expected to ease 0.1 percent on quarter and rise 5.2 percent on year after climbing 2.9 percent on quarter and 5.1 percent on year in Q4. The current account surplus in Q4 was 16.22 billion ringgit.

Singapore will provide April numbers for imports, exports and trade balance. In March, imports were worth SGD42.54 billion and exports were at SGD44.80 billion for a trade surplus of SGD2.26 billion.