Japan Machinery Orders 1987-2018 | Data | Chart | Calendar | Forecast

Core machinery orders in Japan, which exclude those of ships and electrical equipment, plunged 18.3 percent in September of 2018, after a 6.8 percent jump in the previous month and compared to market expectations of a 9.5 percent decline. It was the fourth fall in seven months and the sharpest monthly drop on record. Manufacturing orders shrank 17.3 percent, slowing from a 6.6 percent gain in August, mainly due to a fall in chemical products (-67.0 percent), food & beverages (-47.7 percent), textile mill products (-45.2 percent), and non-ferrous metals (-41.4 percent). Meantime, non-manufacturing orders plummeted 17.1 percent following a 6.0 percent increase. Year-on-year, core machinery orders dropped 7.0 percent, after increasing 12.6 percent in the previous month and compared to expectations of a 7.7 percent climb. Machinery Orders in Japan averaged 0.25 percent from 1987 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 25.50 percent in October of 1996 and a record low of -18.30 percent in September of 2018.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-09-12	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY	13.9%	0.3%	4.7%	2%
2018-10-09	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM	6.8%	11%	-4%	-3%
2018-11-07	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM	-18.3%	6.8%	-9.5%	-6.4%
2018-12-11	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM		-18.3%		-2.5%

Japan Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	19.00	21.00	53.00	-58.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.90	52.50	56.20	29.60		[+]
Services Pmi	52.40	50.20	55.30	46.40	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	-2.90	0.20	30.00	-37.18	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-1.10	0.20	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	0.30	2.23	29.33	-37.18	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	101.40	99.20	137.50	69.30	Index Points	[+]
New Orders	899.96	1208.56	1624.17	693.64	JPY Billion	[+]
Machinery Orders	-18.30	6.80	25.50	-18.30	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	443.30	384.40	7649.80	-6558.50	JPY Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	730.00	621.00	1965.00	6.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	26401.12	20165.23	26401.12	43.24	JPY Billion	[+]
Coincident Index	114.60	116.70	120.60	78.00		[+]
Economy Watchers Survey	49.50	48.60	57.50	18.90		[+]
Car Production	595931.00	684742.00	961994.00	249772.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	227172.00	265059.00	585449.00	83044.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	103.90	104.50	112.60	75.00	Index Points	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	14.00	14.00	46.00	-60.00		[+]
Internet Speed	20171.96	19574.52	20171.96	6541.92	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	43689566.00	43995715.00	44977757.00	23570249.00	IP	[+]
Private Investment	12.80	3.40	12.80	-25.33	percent	[+]
Mining Production	-7.20	-10.20	18.70	-16.10	percent	[+]
Cement Production	4996.00	4963.00	9368.00	4218.00	Thousands of Tonnes	[+]
Competitiveness Index	82.47	81.59	82.47	5.36	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	5.00	8.00	10.00	5.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	52.50	50.70	54.10	46.30		[+]
Corruption Index	73.00	72.00	80.00	58.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	20.00	20.00	25.00	14.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	39.00	34.00	39.00	13.00		[+]
Non Manufacturing Pmi	22.00	24.00	57.00	-41.00		[+]
Steel Production	8418.41	8805.14	10775.00	1177.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]

Japan Machinery Orders

In Japan, Machinery Orders refers to the month-over-month change of the private sector machinery orders, excluding volatile ones for ships and those from electric power companies. This page provides the latest reported value for - Japan Machinery Orders - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Japan Machinery Orders - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on November of 2018.