Australia manufacturing PMI for April: 54.8 (prior 51.0)

Australian Industry Group performance of Manufacturing Index

Comes in at a substantial jump to 54.8. Nice.

• prior 51.0

Clocking the fourth consecutive month of 'expansion'.

Sub indexes all higher on the month except for input prices and wages, both of which fell.

There is a second PMI to come, from, due at 2300GMT