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

Core machinery orders in Japan, which exclude those of ships and electrical equipment, declined by 3.7 percent month-on-month in May of 2018, after a 10.1 percent jump in the previous month and compared to market expectations of a 5.5 percent contraction. It was the second fall in three months. Manufacturing orders advanced only 1.3 percent after a 22.7 percent jump in April, with food & beverages dropping 4.2 percent (vs -2.8 percent) and textiles plunging 19.0 percent (vs +40.9 percent). Meantime, non-manufacturing orders edged up 0.2 percent compared to a 0.4 percent gain. Year-on-year, core machinery orders surged 16.5 percent, gaining steam after a 9.6 percent increase in the previous month. Machinery Orders in Japan averaged 0.28 percent from 1987 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 25.50 percent in October of 1996 and a record low of -15.80 percent in October of 1992.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-06-10	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY	9.6%	-2.4%	3.9%	2.7%
2018-07-10	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY	16.5%	9.6%	8.6%	-0.2%
2018-07-10	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM	-3.7%	10.1%	-5.5%	-0.2%
2018-08-08	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM		-3.7%		3.4%
2018-08-08	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY		16.5%		9.5%
2018-09-12	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM				0.71%

Japan Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	21.00	24.00	53.00	-58.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	53.00	52.80	56.20	29.60		[+]
Services Pmi	51.40	51.00	55.30	46.40	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	4.20	2.60	30.00	-37.18	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-0.20	0.50	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	4.32	2.65	29.33	-37.18	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	102.00	104.20	137.50	69.30	Index Points	[+]
New Orders	1121.84	1061.93	1624.17	693.64	JPY Billion	[+]
Machinery Orders	-3.70	10.10	25.50	-15.80	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	455.70	1443.60	7649.30	-6558.50	JPY Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	690.00	767.00	1965.00	6.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	20165.23	20941.04	22389.97	43.24	JPY Billion	[+]
Coincident Index	116.10	117.50	120.60	77.90		[+]
Economy Watchers Survey	48.10	47.10	57.90	15.90		[+]
Car Production	667610.00	810942.00	961994.00	249772.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	252477.00	202031.00	585449.00	83044.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	106.90	106.20	112.70	75.00	Index Points	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	14.00	15.00	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	3.40	4.30	11.20	-25.33	percent	[+]
Mining Production	-6.80	-5.60	18.70	-16.10	percent	[+]
Cement Production	4825.00	4735.00	9368.00	4218.00	Thousands of Tonnes	[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.49	5.48	5.50	5.36	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	9.00	8.00	10.00	5.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	52.10	51.70	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	34.00	34.00	34.00	13.00		[+]
Non Manufacturing Pmi	24.00	23.00	57.00	-41.00		[+]
Steel Production	9093.15	8723.45	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 July of 2018.