New Zealand Manufacturing PMI Data Due On Friday

RTTNews | 11h 9min ago
New Zealand Manufacturing PMI Data Due On Friday

(RTTNews) - New Zealand will on Friday see June results for the manufacturing PMI from BusinessNZ, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. In May, the index score was 47.5.

Australia will provide July inflation expectation data from the Melbourne Institute; in June, inflation was seen higher by an annual 5.0 percent.

Malaysia will release May numbers for industrial production; in April, production was up 2.7 percent on year.

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