Australia will on Monday release July data for retail sales, highlighting a busy day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. Sales are predicted to rise 1.3 percent on month, accelerating from 0.2 percent in June.
Australia also will see August results for the construction index from AiG, the services and composite indexes from S&P Global, the inflation gauge from TD Securities, job ads from ANZ and Q2 numbers for business inventory and profit data.
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