Economic calendar in Asia for Friday, 5 January 2024 – a light one

<p>Lower tier data from Japan today, unlikely to have much yen impact. </p><p>The services PMI from Japan is due for December</p><ul><li>November was 50.8</li></ul><p>Composite for December also</p><ul><li>prior 49.6</li></ul><p>The preliminary services and comp[osite PMIs for December can be found here:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/news/japan-preliminary-manufacturing-pmi-for-december-falls-to-477-prior-483-20231215/" target="_blank" rel="follow">Jibun Bank / S&amp;P Global PMIs for December, the flash readings</a></li></ul><p>The manufacturing PMI was published earlier this week, it fell deeper into contraction:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.forexlive.com/news/japan-final-december-manufacturing-pmi-479-prior-483-20240104/" target="_blank" rel="follow" data-article-link="true">Japan final December manufacturing PMI 47.9 (prior 48.3)</a></li></ul><ul><li>This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, <a href="https://www.forexlive.com/EconomicCalendar" target="_blank" title="Click here!">access it here</a>.</li><li>The times in the left-most column are GMT.</li><li>The numbers in the right-most column are the 'prior' (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.</li></ul>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.