Australia Building Approval Data Due On Monday

RTTNews | 23h 15min ago
Australia Building Approval Data Due On Monday

(RTTNews) - Australia will on Monday see September figures for building approvals, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. Approvals are expected to rise 12.0 percent on month after slipping 6.0 percent in August.

Japan will release preliminary September figures for its leading and coincident indexes; in August, the leading index was up 1/3 percent on month and the coincident fell 1.3 percent.

Malaysia will see September data for unemployment; in August, the jobless rate was 3.0 percent.

Indonesia will see October results for its consumer confidence index; in September, the index score was 115.9.

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