BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - China will on Friday release March numbers for consumer and producer prices, highlighting a busy day in Asia-Pacific economic news.
Consumer prices are expected to rise 2.4 percent on year after gaining 2.0 percent in February. Producer prices are called lower by 2.2 percent after contracting 2.0 percent in the previous month.
The Bank of Japan will release the minutes from its monetary policy meeting on March 10 and 11. At the meeting, the bank decided to leave interest rates unchanged at 0 to 0.1 percent, while also continuing to increase the monetary base at an annual pace of JPY 60 trillion to JPY 70 trillion.
Japan also will see March figures for money stock and domestic corporate goods prices.
The M2 money stock is expected to hold steady at 4.0 percent, while M3 is called unchanged at 3.2 percent.
The CGPI is tipped to add 0.1 percent on month and 1.7 percent on year after easing 0.2 percent and rising 1.8 percent on year in February.
New Zealand will provide food price data for March; in February, food prices were down 1.0 percent on month and up 0.2 percent on year.
Malaysia will release February numbers for industrial and manufacturing production. Industrial production is expected to fall 1.4 percent on month and rise 7.5 percent on year after shedding 1.3 percent on month and gaining 3.7 percent on year in January.
Manufacturing production was down 1.9 percent on month and up 4.7 percent on year in January.
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