Japan Capital Spending

Japanese companies raised spending on plant and equipment by 6.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, more than a 5.7 percent increase in the previous period but missing market expectations of 11.6 percent growth. Investment of manufacturing companies rose sharply (8.5 percent vs 10.9 percent in Q4), mainly led by chemicals (42.1 percent vs 21.6 percent), production machinery (43.1 percent vs 24.1 percent), fabricated metal products (23.2 percent vs 16.7 percent), and iron & steel (12.6 percent vs 8.4 percent). By contrast, investment of transport equipment companies plunged (-6.5 percent vs 60.3 percent). Growth in investment of non-manufacturing companies accelerated (5 percent vs 2.7 percent), driven by spending on goods rental & leasing (47.7 percent vs 27.8 percent), transport & postal activities (12.9 percent vs 5.8 percent), production & distribution of electricity (10 percent vs 8.2 percent), and construction (15.3 percent vs -1.2 percent). Private Investment in Japan averaged -0.38 percent from 2008 until 2019, 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
2018-09-02	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY Q2	12.8%	3.4%	6.6%	2.6%
2018-12-02	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY Q3	4.5%	12.8%	8.6%	10.6%
2019-02-28	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY Q4	5.7%	4.5%	4.5%	3.2%
2019-06-02	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY Q1	6.1%	5.7%	11.6%	6.5%
2019-09-01	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY Q2		6.1%
2019-12-01	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY Q3

Japan Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	7.00	12.00	53.00	-58.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	49.30	49.80	56.20	29.60		[+]
Services Pmi	51.90	51.70	55.30	46.40	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	-2.10	-1.10	30.00	-37.20	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	2.00	0.60	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-2.10	-1.10	29.30	-37.20	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	103.90	102.20	136.10	68.60	Index Points	[+]
New Orders	1020.55	1071.56	1624.17	693.64	JPY Billion	[+]
Machinery Orders	-7.80	5.20	25.50	-17.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	2191.10	1837.80	7637.40	-6554.90	JPY Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	734.00	695.00	1965.00	6.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	22244.02	19476.32	26401.12	43.24	JPY Billion	[+]
Coincident Index	103.20	102.10	107.00	69.30		[+]
Economy Watchers Survey	44.00	44.10	57.50	18.90		[+]
Car Production	699356.00	780165.00	961994.00	249772.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	248056.00	212636.00	585449.00	83044.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	95.20	95.90	108.00	72.50	Index Points	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	-1.00	6.00	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	[+]
Machine Tool Orders	98829.00	108535.00	182860.00	19037.00	JPY Million	[+]
Mining Production	-2.00	-3.20	16.20	-16.10	percent	[+]
Cement Production	4775.00	4349.00	9368.00	4218.00	Thousands of Tonnes	[+]
All Industry Activity Index	106.70	106.40	108.70	94.20	Index Points	[+]
Competitiveness Index	82.47	81.59	82.47	5.36	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	5.00	8.00	10.00	5.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	50.80	50.70	54.10	46.30		[+]
Corruption Index	73.00	73.00	80.00	58.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	18.00	20.00	25.00	14.00		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	39.00	34.00	39.00	13.00		[+]
Private Investment	6.10	5.70	12.80	-25.33	percent	[+]
Non Manufacturing Pmi	23.00	21.00	57.00	-41.00		[+]
Reuters Tankan Index	3.00	6.00	39.00	-78.00	Index Points	[+]
Tertiary Industry Index	106.80	107.00	107.20	73.20	Index Points	[+]
Steel Production	8675.70	8646.61	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 July of 2019.