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

Core machinery orders in Japan, which exclude those of ships and electrical equipment, rose 6.8 percent in August of 2018, after an 11.0 percent jump in the previous month and compared to market expectations of a 4.0 percent decline. It was the third gain in six months. Manufacturing orders advanced 6.6 percent, slowing from a 11.8 percent gain in July, mainly due to a fall in food & beverages (-26.1 percent compared to 60.5 percent) and petroleum and coal products (-52.9 percent compared to 53.5 percent) while iron & steel rebounded (85.3 percent compared to -10.2 percent). Meantime, non-manufacturing orders climbed 6.0 percent following a 10.9 percent decline. Year-on-year, core machinery orders jumped 12.6 percent, after increasing 13.9 percent in the previous month. Machinery Orders in Japan averaged 0.30 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
2018-09-12	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders YoY	13.9%	0.3%	4.7%	2%
2018-09-12	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM	11%	-8.8%	5.6%	5%
2018-10-09	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM	6.8%	11%	-4%	-3%
2018-11-08	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM		6.8%		6.4%
2018-12-12	11:50 PM	Machinery Orders MoM				-2.5%

Japan Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	19.00	21.00	53.00	-58.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	52.50	52.50	56.20	29.60		[+]
Services Pmi	50.20	51.50	55.30	46.40	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	0.20	2.20	30.00	-37.18	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.20	-0.20	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	0.30	2.23	29.33	-37.18	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	101.40	99.20	137.50	69.30	Index Points	[+]
New Orders	1208.56	1138.84	1624.17	693.64	JPY Billion	[+]
Machinery Orders	6.80	11.00	25.50	-15.80	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	443.30	384.40	7649.80	-6558.50	JPY Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	621.00	694.00	1965.00	6.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	26401.12	20165.23	26401.12	43.24	JPY Billion	[+]
Coincident Index	117.50	116.10	120.60	78.00		[+]
Economy Watchers Survey	48.60	48.70	57.50	18.90		[+]
Car Production	684742.00	702993.00	961994.00	249772.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	265059.00	200355.00	585449.00	83044.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	104.40	103.90	112.70	75.00	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	12.80	3.40	12.80	-25.33	percent	[+]
Mining Production	-7.20	-10.20	18.70	-16.10	percent	[+]
Cement Production	4963.00	5196.00	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	50.70	52.00	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	22.00	24.00	57.00	-41.00		[+]
Steel Production	8805.14	8419.67	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 October of 2018.