CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - The Bank of Japan will on Thursday release the minutes from its monetary policy meeting on November 18 and 19, highlighting an otherwise light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.
At the meeting, the board kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at the record low of 0 to 0.10 percent. It also voted to maintain the annual pace of increase in the monetary base at about JPY 80 trillion.
Japan also will see November results for corporate service prices, construction orders and annualized housing starts.
Corporate service prices are expected to rise 3.5 percent on year, slowing from 3.6 percent in October. Housing starts are called at 0.898 million yen, down from 0.904 million yen a month earlier. Construction orders were up an annual 15.7 percent in the previous month.
Finally, many of the regional bourses are closed on Thursday for the Christmas holiday, including Australia, Hong Kong, South Korea, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia.
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