Japan Capital Spending

Japanese companies raised spending on plant and equipment by 4.5 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2018, following a 12.8 percent increase in the previous period. Investment of manufacturing companies grew 5.1 percent (vs 19.8% in Q2) amid a slowdown in investment across transport equipment firms (3.4% vs 17.1%), information & communication electronics equipment (9% vs 66.1%), and chemical & allied products (23% vs 24.2%). At the same time, a decline was seen in spending on iron & steel (-9.3% vs -0.9%), and electrical machinery, equipment & supplies (-7.8% vs -5.4%). Meanwhile, investment of non-manufacturing companies rose 4.2 percent (vs 9.2% in Q2) as spending slowed on transport & postal activities (21.3% vs 44.6%) and production, transmission & distribution of electricity (13.6% vs 60.7%); but fell on services (-8.9% vs -4.5%) and wholesale & retail trade (-5.7% vs 14.9%). Private Investment in Japan averaged -0.69 percent from 2008 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 12.80 percent in the second quarter of 2018 and a record low of -25.33 percent in the first quarter of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-02-28	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY	4.3%	4.2%	3.1%	1.7%
2018-05-31	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY	3.4%	4.3%	3.2%	-1.2%
2018-09-02	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY	12.8%	3.4%	6.6%	2.6%
2018-12-02	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY	4.5%	12.8%	8.6%	10.6%
2019-02-28	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY		4.5%
2019-06-02	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY
2019-09-01	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY

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	1086.17	899.96	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	718.00	730.00	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 Capital Spending

Capital Spending in Japan refers to a year-on-year change in capital investments of private profit-making corporations with capital of 10 million yen or over. The survey includes all industries except finance and insurance. This page provides - Japan Private Investment- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Japan Capital Spending - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on January of 2019.