HSBC China manufacturing PMI for March is out at 9:45 p.m. ET.
Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for PMI to hold steady at 48.1. A reading below 50 indicates contraction.
The current reading puts manufacturing at an eight-month low. Moreover the weakness in the report was broad-based.
HSBC economist Hongbin Qu has previously said that he expects that policymakers would announce measures to stabilize growth.
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