Japan Machinery Orders

Core machinery orders in Japan, which exclude those of ships and electrical equipment, remained unchanged in November 2018, after a 7.6 percent jump in the previous month and compared to market expectations of a 3.5 percent increase. Manufacturing orders declined 6.4 percent percent (vs +12.3 percent in October), mainly dragged by sharp contractions in food & beverage (-44.1 percent vs +170.6 percent) and non-ferrous metals (-60.6 percent vs +173.2 percent). Also, petroleum & coal products advanced at a softer 83.5 percent after a 490.2 percent surge in the previous month. Additionally, non-manufacturing orders rose by 2.5 percent following a 4.5 percent increase. Year-on-year, core machinery orders rose 0.8 percent, slowing from a 4.5 percent gain in the previous month but above market consensus of 0.4 percent. Machinery Orders in Japan averaged 0.27 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.

Machinery Orders in Japan is expected to be 1.70 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Machinery Orders in Japan to stand at 0.30 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Japan Machinery Orders is projected to trend around 0.20 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-12-11	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY	4.5%	-7%	5.9%	2.5%
2018-12-11	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM	7.6%	-18.3%	10.5%	9.3%
2019-01-15	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM	0%	7.6%	3.5%	0.5%
2019-01-15	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY	0.8%	4.5%	0.4%	0.3%
2019-02-17	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY		0.8%		-0.6%
2019-02-17	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM		0%		-0.6%
2019-03-12	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM

Japan Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	19.00	19.00	53.00	-58.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.60	52.20	56.20	29.60		[+]
Services Pmi	51.00	52.30	55.30	46.40	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	1.50	4.20	30.00	-37.20	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-1.00	2.90	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.50	4.20	29.30	-37.20	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	106.30	105.20	136.10	68.60	Index Points	[+]
New Orders	1025.44	1086.17	1624.17	693.64	JPY Billion	[+]
Machinery Orders	0.00	7.60	25.50	-18.30	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	1157.40	971.50	7611.00	-6584.40	JPY Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	622.00	718.00	1965.00	6.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	18284.72	26401.12	26401.12	43.24	JPY Billion	[+]
Coincident Index	103.00	104.90	107.20	69.40		[+]
Economy Watchers Survey	48.00	51.00	57.50	18.90		[+]
Car Production	758010.00	692919.00	961994.00	249772.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	215152.00	240819.00	585449.00	83044.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	99.30	99.60	108.00	72.40	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	4.50	12.80	12.80	-25.33	percent	[+]
Mining Production	-5.80	-8.50	16.20	-16.10	percent	[+]
Cement Production	5313.00	5322.00	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	52.00	52.40	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	24.00	22.00	57.00	-41.00		[+]
Steel Production	8657.90	8563.52	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 January of 2019.