South Korea is on Friday scheduled to release final gross domestic product figures for the first quarter of 2013, highlighting a busy day in Asia-Pacific economic activity.
Little change is expected from April's preliminary reading that suggested an increase of 0.9 percent on quarter and 1.5 percent on year. In the previous three months, GDP added 0.3 percent on quarter and 1.5 percent on year.
Japan will see preliminary April figures for its leading and coincident indexes. The leading index is called at 98.6, up from 97.9 in March. The coincident is tipped at 94.9, up from 93.8 in the previous month.
Australia will see May numbers for the Performance of Construction Index from AiG; in April, it came in with a score of 35.2.
Malaysia will release April numbers for imports, exports and trade balance. In March, imports were at 54.93 billion ringgit and exports came in at 60.01 billion ringgit for a surplus of 5.08 billion ringgit.
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