FinancialJapan Industrial Production Due On Monday

(RTTNews) - Japan is scheduled to release final November numbers for industrial production and capacity utilization on Monday, headlining a light day for Asian economic news.

Analysts are expecting the output numbers to show little change from the preliminary figures released earlier this month. Production was said to gain 2.6 percent on month but shed 3.9 percent on year, while capacity utilization was up 0.2 percent on month.

Also, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa will give a speech at the central bank's quarterly branch managers' meeting in Tokyo.

Singapore will provide December figures for non-oil domestic exports, which analysts predict to have risen 22 percent on year following the 8.7 percent annual expansion in November. The electronics NODX number is forecast to ease 0.2 percent on year after surging an annual 19.8 percent in the previous month.