Australia Trade Balance On Tap For Thursday

(RTTNews) - Australia will on Thursday release April numbers for imports, exports and trade balance, highlighting a modest day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.

In March, imports were worth A$28.30 billion and exports were at A$29.03 billion for a trade surplus of A$0.73 billion.

The Philippines will provide consumer price data for May and producer price numbers for April. In April, CPI was up 0.4 percent on month and 4.1 percent on year. In March, PPI added 0.1 percent on month and 0.3 percent on year.

China will see May results for HSBC composite and services indexes; in April, they saw scores of 49.5 and 51.4, respectively.