• Worldwide PMI surveys on services to provide more colour on economic activity at start of 2019
• Central bank meetings in Australia, India, Thailand and the Philippines
• Indonesia Q4 GDP
• Special focus on Japan's growth outlook for 2019

Next week brings the worldwide release of service sector PMI data that will add to the insights into economic performance and price trends across the world. Several Asian central banks will meanwhile meet to decide on monetary policy while Indonesia publishes GDP data.

Elsewhere, some US data could be subject to further delay while an advance release of fourth quarter US GDP could be postponed, but updates to the US services PMI will still be released as scheduled, offering an up-to-date look into the US economy.

Our special focus looks at the 2019 growth outlook of Japan from the PMI perspective.

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