Japan Small Business Sentiment

Small Business Sentiment in Japan decreased to 6 in the first quarter of 2019 from 14 in the fourth quarter of 2018. Small Business Sentiment in Japan averaged -6.94 from 1967 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 46 in the third quarter of 1973 and a record low of -60 in the fourth quarter of 1998.

Small Business Sentiment in Japan is expected to be 15.00 by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Small Business Sentiment in Japan to stand at 5.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Japan Small Business Sentiment is projected to trend around -4.00 in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-07-01	11:50 PM	Tankan Small Manufacturers Index	14	15	13	14
2018-09-30	11:50 PM	Tankan Small Manufacturers Index	14	14	13	15
2018-12-13	11:50 PM	Tankan Small Manufacturers Index	14	14	13	13
2019-03-31	11:50 PM	Tankan Small Manufacturers Index	6	14	10	12
2019-06-30	11:50 PM	Tankan Small Manufacturers Index		6		12
2019-09-30	11:50 PM	Tankan Small Manufacturers Index				10
2019-12-12	11:50 PM	Tankan Small Manufacturers Index				5

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	-1.10	0.70	30.00	-37.20	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.70	-2.50	6.80	-16.50	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-1.10	0.70	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	98.80	98.10	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	97.40	96.50	107.90	72.40	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	-1.40	-4.60	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 Small Business Sentiment

Tankan Business Conditions Small Manufacturing Enterprises Diffusion Index is based on the survey of approximately 220,000 private enterprises (excluding financial institutions) with at least 20 million yen in capital. The survey is done by mail or e-mail and asks participants to evaluate current trends and conditions in the business place and their respective industries as well as their expected business activities for the next quarter and year. The indicator is calculated by subtracting the percentage share of enterprises responding on the negative side from the share giving positive assessments. The index varies on a scale of -100 to 100 such that a value above zero indicates business optimism, a value below zero pessimism and 0 indicates neutrality. This page provides - Japan Small Business Sentiment- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Japan Small Business Sentiment - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.