China is on Tuesday scheduled to release April results from the Conference Board's leading and coincident indexes, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. The leading index saw a 0.8 percent increase in March, while the coincident was up 0.6 percent.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will release its two-year inflation expectation report for the second quarter of 2012.
Japan will provide April figures for supermarket sales; they were down 2.4 percent on year in March.
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