China's GDP print for the first quarter is expected to be out at around 10:00 a.m. HK/SIN on Friday, along with data for industrial production as well as retail sales for March.
Investors have been closely watching economic data out of China, looking for insight on the magnitude of the coronavirus economic impact.
Analysts polled by Reuters expect China's GDP to have fallen 6.5% from last year, a sharp drop from the 6% growth recorded in the fourth quarter of 2019. That would also be the first quarterly decline since 1992, when China began reporting GDP, according to Reuters.
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