Events: A court hearing is scheduled for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on charges of making the contents of a diplomatic cable public. Malaysia’s sultans convene to choose the south-east Asian country’s next king. The annual three-day Sichuan Agricultural Expo and the Agro-Chengdu show open in Chengdu, China.
Economic data: Japan publishes October trade figures. Australia issues producer price index data for the third quarter. Singapore publishes third-quarter jobless data and the URA property index for the same period.
Corporate results: Japan’s Hitachi and Nomura release second-quarter earnings, as does Maruti Suzuki India. In South Korea, Kia Motors and LG Electronics publish third-quarter data, as do several large Chinese companies including Bank of Communications, China Merchants Bank, China Molybdenum, China National Nuclear Power, China Shenhua Energy, CSR Corporation, Great Wall Motor, Postal Savings Bank of China, SAIC Motor, Tsingtao Brewery and Yanzhou Coal Mining.
