Japan Machinery Orders

Core machinery orders in Japan, which exclude those of ships and electrical equipment, rose 13.9 percent from a month earlier in June 2019, the biggest monthly gain since comparable data became available in 2005 and above market consensus of a 1.3 percent drop. There was a strong upturn in non-manufacturing orders (30.5 percent vs -9 percent in May), boosted by transportation & postal activities (91.4 percent vs -29.9 percent); real estate (97.3 percent vs -34.8 percent); and information services (19.2 percent vs -7.5 percent). In addition, manufacturing orders fell at much softer pace (-1.7 percent vs -7.4 percent), as the decline in orders softened for iron & steel (-2.1 percent vs -13.3 percent); while there was a rebound in demand for non-ferrous metals (126.5 percent vs -25.1 percent) and fabricated metal products (31 percent vs -25.8 percent). Year-on-year, core machinery orders grew unexpectedly by 12.5 percent, also beating market expectations of a 0.6 percent fall. Machinery Orders in Japan averaged 0.30 percent from 1987 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 25.50 percent in October of 1996 and a record low of -17 percent in September of 2018.

Machinery Orders in Japan is expected to be -1.40 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 0.50 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
2019-07-07	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM May	-7.8%	5.2%	-4.7%	-4%
2019-07-07	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY May	-3.7%	2.5%	-3.9%
2019-08-13	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY Jun	12.5%	-3.7%	-0.6%	-1.2%
2019-08-13	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM Jun	13.9%	-7.8%	-1.3%	-2%
2019-09-11	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM Jul		13.9%
2019-09-11	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY Jul		12.5%
2019-10-09	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM Aug

Japan Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	7.00	12.00	53.00	-58.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	49.40	49.30	56.20	29.60		[+]
Services Pmi	51.80	51.90	55.30	46.40	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	-3.80	-2.10	30.00	-37.20	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-3.30	2.00	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-3.80	-2.10	29.30	-37.20	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	101.20	103.90	136.10	68.60	Index Points	[+]
New Orders	1122.80	1020.55	1624.17	693.64	JPY Billion	[+]
Machinery Orders	13.90	-7.80	25.50	-17.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	2191.10	1837.80	7637.40	-6554.90	JPY Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	802.00	734.00	1965.00	6.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	22244.02	19476.32	26401.12	43.24	JPY Billion	[+]
Coincident Index	100.40	103.40	107.00	69.30		[+]
Economy Watchers Survey	41.20	44.00	57.50	18.90		[+]
Car Production	676431.00	699356.00	961994.00	249772.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	258150.00	248056.00	585449.00	83044.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	93.30	94.90	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	101268.00	98928.00	182860.00	19037.00	JPY Million	[+]
Mining Production	-7.60	-2.00	16.20	-16.10	percent	[+]
Cement Production	4694.00	4775.00	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	50.60	50.80	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	-4.00	3.00	39.00	-78.00	Index Points	[+]
Tertiary Industry Index	106.90	107.00	107.20	73.20	Index Points	[+]
Steel Production	8789.26	8675.70	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 August of 2019.