CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Japan is on Monday scheduled to release Q4 numbers for capital spending, highlighting a busy day in Asia-Pacific economic activity. In the third quarter, capital spending was up 1.5 percent, while capital spending excluding software collected 2.3 percent.
Japan also will see January numbers for loans and discounts, February figures for vehicle sales and Q4 data for company profits and sales. Loans and discounts were up 2.2 percent on year in December, while vehicle sales surged 27.5 percent on year in January. Company sales added 0.8 percent in the third quarter, while company profits spiked 24.1 percent.
Australia will see January numbers for new home sales, February results for the AiG Performance of Manufacturing Index, the TD Securities inflation forecast, commodity prices and job ads data, as well as Q4 numbers for company inventories and operating profits.
New home sales were down 0.4 percent on month in December, while the manufacturing index saw a score of 46.7 in January. The inflation forecast in January had CPI up 0.1 percent on month and 2.5 percent on year. Job ads were down 0.3 percent on month in January, while commodity prices fell 9.9 percent on year. Inventories were down 0.5 percent in the third quarter, while operating profits jumped 3.9 percent.
China will see February results for its non-manufacturing PMI and the HSBC manufacturing PMI. In January, they saw scores of 53.4 and 49.5, respectively.
Hong Kong will provide retail sales data for January; in December, sales jumped 6.1 percent on year.
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