On Thursday, Indonesia is set to unveil the retail figures for January, marking a rather calm day for economic activity in the Asia-Pacific region. Retail sales observed a 0.2 percent annual growth rate in the previous month, December.
In separate news, Hong Kong is preparing to announce the fourth-quarter figures for industrial production and producer prices. The last quarter saw a year-on-year rise of 4.4 percent in production and an annual increase of 3.0 percent in producer prices.
