TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - Japan will on Friday see preliminary January results for the manufacturing PMI from Nikkei, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.
The PMI is expected to come in with a score of 52.8 - up from 52.6 and further above the boom-or-bust line of 50 that separates expansion from contraction.
Taiwan will release December figures for unemployment and industrial production. The jobless rate is called at a seasonally adjusted 3.85 percent, up fractionally from 3.84 percent in November. Output is tipped to slide 5.6 percent on year after losing 4.94 percent in the previous month.
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