JAPAN DATA: Friday, Dec. 7, 1400 JST (0500 GMT): The Cabinet Office releases
Indexes of Business Conditions for October.
Forecast: The October coincident CI to fall about 0.6 points to 90.9, a seventh
consecutive monthly drop after dropping 2.0 points in September. In light of the
continued weakness, the government is expected to revise down its assessment
based on the coincident CI for the second in a row, saying the index shows the
economy is “worsening.”