CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - South Korea will on Thursday release final GDP figures for the third quarter, highlighting a busy day for Asia-Pacific economic news.
Little change is expected from the October preliminary reading that suggested an increase of 1.2 percent on quarter and 2.6 percent on year. In the second quarter, GDP had added 0.3 percent on quarter and 2.2 percent on year.
Australia will see October numbers for imports, exports and trade balance, as well as November results for the AiG Performance of Services Index.
The trade balance is expected to show a deficit of A$2.60 billion following the A$2.317 billion shortfall in September - when imports were worth A$29.75billion and exports were at 27.43 billion. The services PMI had a score of 48.9 in October.
Japan will see November results for the services and composite PMIs from Nikkei; in October, they had scores of 52.2 and 52.3, respectively.
China will see November numbers for the services and composite PMIs from Caixin; in October, they were at 52.0 and 49.9, respectively.
Thailand will release November numbers for its consumer confidence (economy) index; in October, the index score was 73.4.
Singapore and Hong Kong will see November numbers for the manufacturing PMIs from Nikkei; in October, they had scores of 50.2 and 46.6, respectively.
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