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South Korea Export Price Data Due On Friday
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(RTTNews) - South Korea will on Friday release February figures for its export and import price indexes, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.
In January, the export price index was up 8.5 percent on year, while the import price index climbed an annual 6.6 percent.
New Zealand will see February results for the manufacturing PMI from BusinessNZ; in January, the index score was 51.4.
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