Asia Pacific markets traded higher as investors waited for the release of important Chinese economic data that would provide further insight into the health of the world’s second-largest economy.
Beijing is expected to announce China’s gross domestic product numbers for the fourth quarter around 10:00 a.m. HK/SIN.
Analysts polled by Reuters expect the world’s second-largest economy to have grown 6.4 percent in the October-December quarter from a year earlier, matching levels last seen in early 2009 during the global financial crisis.