BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - The Bank of Japan will on Tuesday release the minutes from its monetary policy meeting on October 31, highlighting a busy day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.
At the meeting, the BoJ expanded its massive quantitative and qualitative easing in a 5-4 vote, raising the monetary base at an annual pace of about JPY 80 trillion. The earlier plan was to increase it by about JPY 60-70 trillion.
Japan also will see October results for corporate service prices, with forecasts suggesting an increase of 3.6 percent following the 3.5 percent gain in September.
Singapore will release final Q3 figures for gross domestic product, with forecasts suggesting an increase of 1.6 percent on quarter and 2.5 percent on year following the 0.1 percent quarterly increase and the 2.4 yearly gain.
Hong Kong will release October numbers for imports, exports and trade balance. In September, imports were worth 382.36 billion HKD and exports were at 331.99 billion HKD for a trade deficit of 50.37 billion HKD.
Malaysia will see unemployment data for September; in August, the jobless rate was 2.7 percent with a participation rate of 67.1 percent.
China will see October numbers for the leading and coincident indexes from the Conference Board; in September, they were up 0.9 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.
The Philippines will release September data for imports, exports and trade balance; in August, imports were worth $5.49 billion and exports were at $5.47 billion for a trade deficit of $17 million.
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