Japan Capital Spending

Japanese companies raised spending on plant and equipment by 5.7 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2018 following a 4.5 percent increase in the previous period and beating market expectations of 4.5 percent. It was the ninth straight quarter in expansion zone, as investment of manufacturing companies surged 10.9 percent (vs 5.1 percent in Q3), led by information & communication electronics equipment (60.3 percent), chemicals (21.6 percent) and production machinery (24.1 percent), more than offsetting a 10.8 percent decline in food manufacturing companies. Meantime, investment of non-manufacturing companies climbed at a slower 2.7 percent pace (vs 4.2 percent in Q3), as wholesale and retail trade plunged 12.6 percent (vs -5.7 percent) and services dropped 3.7 percent (vs -8.9 percent). Private Investment in Japan averaged -0.53 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
2018-05-31	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	5.7%	4.5%	4.5%	3.2%
2019-06-02	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY		5.7%
2019-09-01	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY
2019-12-01	11:50 PM	Capital Spending YoY

Japan Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	12.00	19.00	53.00	-58.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	49.50	49.20	56.20	29.60		[+]
Services Pmi	52.00	52.30	55.30	46.40	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	-4.60	-1.10	30.00	-37.20	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-0.90	0.70	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-4.50	-1.10	29.30	-37.20	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	101.00	100.00	136.10	68.60	Index Points	[+]
New Orders	983.99	1060.92	1624.17	693.64	JPY Billion	[+]
Machinery Orders	1.80	-5.40	25.50	-17.00	percent	[+]
Changes in Inventories	1599.80	1520.70	7636.60	-6554.30	JPY Billion	[+]
Bankruptcies	662.00	589.00	1965.00	6.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	19476.32	18284.72	26401.12	43.24	JPY Billion	[+]
Coincident Index	100.40	97.60	107.00	69.30		[+]
Economy Watchers Survey	44.80	47.50	57.50	18.90		[+]
Car Production	677024.00	682426.00	961994.00	249772.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	357254.00	261007.00	585449.00	83044.00		[+]
Leading Economic Index	97.10	96.30	107.90	72.30	Index Points	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	6.00	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	5.70	4.50	12.80	-25.33	percent	[+]
Mining Production	-3.10	-1.40	16.20	-16.10	percent	[+]
Cement Production	4796.00	4438.00	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	50.40	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		[+]
Non Manufacturing Pmi	21.00	24.00	57.00	-41.00		[+]
Steel Production	7743.38	8141.17	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 April of 2019.